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4 unusual facts about Sawston


Cambridge City F.C.

In 2012, it was announced that the club's President, Len Satchell, had purchased 35 acres of land in Sawston, with a view to building the club a new 3,000 seat stadium, alongside community facilities for Sawston and the surrounding villages.

Cambridge Eagles

It was decided in 2008 to move the team permanently to Sawston.

Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc

He held that the use of industrial chemicals was not "non-natural", given that it was on an industrial site, and that for a claim to succeed under Rylands the use must be "some special use bringing increased danger to others, and must not merely be the ordinary use of the land or such a use as is proper for the general benefit of the community"; Eastern Counties Leather created jobs in Sawston, and was thus providing a benefit for the community.

The Nightcomers

The manor house in the film is Sawston Hall, a 16th-century Tudor manor house in Sawston, Cambridgeshire.


Cambridge Eagles

The team train and play home games at Sawston Rugby Club which is located at Sawston Village College.

Herbert Butterfield

Sir Herbert Butterfield (7 October 1900, Oxenhope, Yorkshire – 20 July 1979, Sawston, Cambridgeshire) was a British historian and philosopher of history who is remembered chiefly for two books—a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and his Origins of Modern Science (1949).


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