Meadowcroft, Church Street, Chesterton, Cambridge: An Archaeological Desktop Assessment

A desk based assessment was carried out on the plot in Chesterton occupied by 'Meadowcroft' and a former Methodist Chapel, both now converted to office use. Very little data is available for earlier periods in the vicinity but there is good documentary evidence, supported by recent archaeological findings, that Chesterton was a thriving settlement from at least Domesday onwards. The 'Meadowcroft' plot seems to have lain just outside the main area of medieval settlement activity, though it is possible that ancillary aspects of the priory Grange, located less than 100m away, extend into the area. 'Meadowcroft' itself was built around 1900, the chapel in 1904