Upend is a hamlet in the east of
Cambridgeshire
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. It is south-east of
Newmarket and lies in the same
parish
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as
Kirtling
Kirtling, together with Kirtling Green and Kirtling Towers, is a scattered settlement in the south-eastern edge of the English county of Cambridgeshire. It forms a civil parish with the nearby village of Upend to its north. The population of t ...
. Until the 15th century Upend was called Upheme which is old English for "the up-dwelling". Upend may once have been a separate village but it had been absorbed into Kirtling at some time before 1066.
The population of Upend in 2013 was 70.
As the population at the 2011 census was less than 100 the population is included in the
civil parish
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of
Kirtling
Kirtling, together with Kirtling Green and Kirtling Towers, is a scattered settlement in the south-eastern edge of the English county of Cambridgeshire. It forms a civil parish with the nearby village of Upend to its north. The population of t ...
.
References
External links
Kirtling and Upend parish web site
Hamlets in Cambridgeshire
East Cambridgeshire District
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