Support
Draft Sawston Village Design Statement SPD
Representation ID: 167701
Received: 17/05/2019
Respondent: Cllr David Bard
This may need a little modification. Although there are archaeological remains going back to the Mesolithic, the name "Sawston" itself is almost certainly traceable to the early Saxon period. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as 'Selsingtun' - roughly: "the place of the Saelsings or Selse's people". The name is cognate with Selsingen, a village in the Rotenburg District of Lower Saxony with which Sawston was twinned in 1989. The implication is that Sawston was settled by migrants from that area of Lower Saxony in the early post-Roman period.
This may need a little modification. Although there are archaeological remains going back to the Mesolithic, the name "Sawston" itself is almost certainly traceable to the early Saxon period. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as 'Selsingtun' - roughly: "the place of the Saelsings or Selse's people". The name is cognate with Selsingen, a village in the Rotenburg District of Lower Saxony with which Sawston was twinned in 1989. The implication is that Sawston was settled by migrants from that area of Lower Saxony in the early post-Roman period.