After the dissolution of the priory under Henry VIII, the former prior was allowed to live in the chapel and it became a house. The chapel had several more floors added in , but these were removed in Today the bridge and chapel are the most recognizable symbols of this pleasant town.
For 5 years between and , Oliver Cromwell lived in St Ives, where he attempted to make a go of being a yeoman farmer. A minor inheritance relieved Cromwell of the need to till the soil, and he moved to Ely. Despite this, the town retains a strong identity with Cromwell. A statue of the Lord Protector stands in the Market Place.
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Heritage Rated from 1- 5 low to exceptional on historic interest. Norris Museum - 0. Hemingford Grey Manor - 1. Houghton Mill - 1. The lanes along the north side of town are believed to follow the layout of the narrow medieval fields, and are slightly S-shaped because of the way ploughs turned at each end.
Similar field boundaries can be seen in Warners Park. In the period to the population of St Ives was recorded every ten years by the UK census. During this time the population was in the range of 2, the lowest was in and 3, the highest was in From , a census was taken every ten years with the exception of due to the Second World War. All population census figures from report Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to by Cambridgeshire Insight.
In , the parish covered an area of 2, acres 1, hectares and the population density of St Ives in was persons per square mile As an important market town, St Ives always needed large numbers of public houses: 64 in 1 for every 55 inhabitants , 60 in , 48 in and 45 in , although only five of these made the owners a living. As livestock sales diminished, however, so did the need for large numbers of pubs, falling to a low point of 16 in In that year the Seven Wives on Ramsey Road was opened and, with some openings and closings since, there are 17 today.
The pub which has stood on the same site, with the same name, for longest, is the Dolphin, which is over years old. Next oldest is the White Hart, which is pre Nelson's Head and Golden Lion are at least as old but have not kept the same name and used to be called the Three Tuns and the Red Lion respectively.
The existence of a pub on the site of the Robin Hood is also of a similar date, except that it was originally two separate pubs — the Angel and the Swan. The claim of the Royal Oak to date from cannot be proven since, while a portion at the back is 17th-century making it physically the oldest portion of any pub in St Ives , the pub name is more recent.
The reference is to Charles II 's famous escape from Cromwell 's Roundheads , and Charles was restored to the throne in The Golden Lion was a 19th-century coaching inn. The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway referred to it in as one of two "leading hotels" in St Ives and there are a number of ghost stories associated with the pub.
St Ives Bridge is most unusual in incorporating a chapel , the most striking of only four examples in England. Also unusual are its two southern arches which are a different shape from the rest of the bridge, being rounded instead of slightly gothic. After the dissolution of the monasteries in , the chapel was given to the prior to live in. The lords of the manor of St Ives changed hands several times, as did the chapel.
During this period, it was in turn - a private house, a doctors surgery and a pub, called Little Hell. The pub did have a reputation for rowdy behavior and the landlord kept pigs in the basement! The additional two storeys added in the seventeenth century were removed in , due to damage being caused to the foundations. The bridge was partially rebuilt after Oliver Cromwell knocked down two arches during the English Civil War to prevent King Charles I's troops approaching London from the Royalist base in Lincolnshire.
During the war and for some period afterwards, the gap was covered by a drawbridge. The town square contains a statue of Oliver Cromwell erected in It is one of four statues of Cromwell on public display in Britain, the others being in Parliament Square, outside Wythenshawe Hall and in Warrington.
The eastern or town end of Holt Island is nature reserve, and the western end, opposite the parish church, is a facility for the Sea Scouts. The scout portion contains what was, before the opening of the Leisure Centre, the town's outdoor town swimming pool. The pool was dug in and closed to the public in It is now used by the scouts for canoeing and rappelling. In November , the island was the locus of a significant lawsuit and a break-away Scouting Association was prevented from using and developing a claim to it.
The Norris Museum holds a great deal of local history, including a number of books written by its former curator, Bob Burn-Murdoch. Water meadows, stretching both upstream and downstream of the town, provide an unspoiled green open space, forming part of the Ouse Valley Way long distance path. The stretch from St Ives to Houghton Mill, is particularly picturesque. Its spire has been rebuilt several times, most recently in after it was hit by an aircraft. Oliver Cromwell was church warden here when he lived in on farm in the rich countryside nearby.
The neo-Gothic style Free Church , in Market Hill, has a ft spire, rivaling that of the parish church. It was deliberately made a few feet higher to assert the strength of non-conformity and liberalism in the town. Named after Herbert Norris, a local historian and archaeologist who bequeathed his lifetime's collection to the town when he died in Exhibits include ancient fossils and remains of Ice Age Mammoths, prehistoric tools and weapons and artifacts from of Roman times.
There is also a fine collection of arms and armour from the English Civil War. Local crafts and lace-making. Includes story of 16th and 17th-century witch trials. Outside the building is an attractive riverside courtyard garden.
The community centre at the heart of St. Ives is used for a wide range of uses by clubs, societies, businesses events and conferences. Please note that the museums, historic houses and attractions listed on this site may be currently closed due to Government Guidelines. Regions - East of England - Cambridgeshire.
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