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1st April 1943
- Nuthampstead was commissioned by the USAAF in 1942, to the standard bomber field specification, with a completion date of 1st April 1943.
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Archaeology. The first time Nuthampstead is recorded as a name was in the twelfth century. It occurs in documents as Nothamsteda and Nuthamestede; the name contains Old English hnutu, ‘a nut’, and hāmstede, ‘a homestead’.
Nuthampstead is a small village and civil parish in North East Hertfordshire located a few miles south of the town of Royston. In the 2001 census the parish had 139 residents, [2] increasing to 142 at the 2011 Census. [1] Nuthampstead was historically a hamlet in the parish of Barkway.
Apr 27, 2020 · Although Nuthampstead does not appear under this name in Domesday Book, it was a manor of Barkway held from Geoffrey de Mandeville in 1086 by someone called Hugh. It is simply named as Bercheuuei and was assessed to pay tax of £6 on three hides of arable land.
Construction began in 1942 with the facility being built by the 814th and 630th Engineer Battalions of the US Army for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eighth Air Force. Nuthampstead was assigned USAAF designation Station 131.
Nuthampstead. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Nuthampstead like this: NUTHAMPSTEAD, a hamlet in Barkway parish, Herts; 5½ miles S E by S of Royston. Acres, 1,891.
Nuthampstead is a tiny rural community, rather off the beaten track on the chalk uplands near the Hertfordshire border with Essex. It has probably always been like that except for a period of three years in the 1940s when it was home to thousands of Americans during World War II.
Sep 30, 2024 · 'Nuthampstead', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire( London, 1910), British History Online, accessed September 30, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/herts/p160a. "Nuthampstead".
