Historiae Cantebrigiensis Academiae ab urbe condita, liber primus [-secundus]

Barnwell village, from whence it is said.

that in the middle of that place, springs of green and pure water bubbled up, and because boys and adolescents were accustomed to assemble there annually on the vigil of Saint John the Baptist to wrestle and exercise themselves in other games, and girls would exhilarate themselves with song and music. For the sake of this spectacle, a multitude congregating, merchants led by the hope of profit flew in for the sake of trading. From which beginning the custom grew from there that on that same feast day, a crowd of sellers and buyers assemble there for the sake of trading. In this place, the holy man Godefonus previously lived, leading a solitary life, frequent in prayers, in a certain wooden and humble oratory built for Saint Andrew, who, having died a little while before, left both the place and the oratory without a guardian and inhabitant. The place was of thirteen acres, as is clear from the charter of the same Payne. I granted, he said, similarly to the same canons a certain place lying in the fields of Cambridge for thirteen acres, around the springs of Barnwell, which King Henry gave to me, to establish and finish their house. Wherefore, when he had prepared everything, he moved the regular canons from Saint Giles at Cambridge to Saint Andrew at Barnwell, with great preparation and pomp, accompanied by no small crowd of clergy, people, and burgesses of Cambridge, in the year of our Lord 1112. After it had stood for twenty years, he began the laborious church for blessed Giles, and dedicated it to him and to Saint Andrew.

There were also other streets, or narrow ways in this part of the city, but consumed by oblivion. There were also others in a part of the city, located further away from this castle. For that is at the castle, and beyond the castle; this is on this side of the castle. Among which is Smeremonger Lane, at the fish market, and in the parish of Saint Peter outside Trumpington Gates, Dowdeuere Lane, which extended, as it is believed, from Pembroke Hall to the street of the Friars Preachers.

[The column-break contains fragments of names of lanes and church parishes, including Chollelane and references to various hostels and colleges.]