Population 83 (2006 estimate) Region East Sovereign state United Kingdom Shire county Cambridgeshire District South Cambridgeshire | OS grid reference TL577569 Country England Post town CAMBRIDGE Local time Thursday 7:08 AM Dialling code 01638 | |
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Six Mile Bottom is a hamlet within the parish of Little Wilbraham, near Cambridge in England.
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Map of Six Mile Bottom, Newmarket, UK
History
In the 1790s the only building at Six Mile Bottom was a paddock run by a stable keeper. In 1802, a sizeable country house was built nearby. Early residents were George and Augusta Leigh, the latter being Lord Byron's half-sister. Their residence is now the Country House Hotel, Paddocks House. There was little additional building until the 1840s, but it grew from there until there were 22 homes housing around 170 people in around 1920, most owned by the Six Mile Bottom estate.
The hamlet derives its name from its distance from the start of Newmarket Racecourse and because it lies in a valley bottom.
Six Mile Bottom railway station served the village from the 1860s (by the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway) until 1967.
Village life
The hamlet has a pub/restaurant, The Green Man, which also provides accommodation. It has served since the hamlet grew in the early 19th century, but may also be the same inn with stabling for 22 horses that was reported in 1686.
There was at one time a small school, reopened as a community centre in 1975. Christian services were held in the village's school from the 1890s to the 1920s. The brick-and-flint mission church of St George was built in 1933.
Transport
There is no public transport. The previous station, on the Cambridge to Ipswich line, was at Six Mile Bottom. It is now a private residence.