Gamlingay: Sir John Jacob's Almshouses
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Gamlingay: Sir John Jacob's Almshouses
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 27 May 2015
Seventeenth-century Grade II* listed almshouses on Church Street. For the listing, see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-52721-almhouses-gamlingay-cambridgeshire#.VWcucyiwHZY . The building was renovated by a local firm in 2000. For more about Sir John Jacob Bt (1599-1666), a Royalist, see http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/jacob-john-1597-1666 .
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Image Location
Latitude
52.155169
Longitude
-0.189896