The Changing District

Cambridge District Scout Archive

The following flow chart is designed to be read alongside the notes immediately below.

A list of villages is at the bottom of the page.

1910 First District in the region with other Districts forming and some groups being reallocated

Troops from Cambridgeshire, some of which may were allocated to Cambridge as the premier working District in the County, gained their own Districts. Until 1911 there was no County organization.

1922 Working as four sub districts N, E, W, S (details unclear)

1934 Working as Sub Districts

South Cambs. 25^th, 40^th, 47^th, 51^st , 52^nd, 56^th, 61^st, 1^st District, 3^rd District, 4^th District , 17^th District
North Cambs. 16^th, 32^nd,43^rd, 45^th, 46^th, 57^th, 58^th, 59^th, 64^th
Cambridge not listed

1935 Became separate Districts (North Cambridge initially became East Cambridge then Mid Cambs.)

South Cambs. 25^th,40^th, 47^th, 51^st, 52^nd, 56^th, 61^st, 68^th, 69^th 1^st, 3^rd, 4^th District
West Cambs. 39^th, 50^th, 62^nd – these three soon close, 17^th District (Barton) to South
Cambridge 2^nd, 5^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 11^th, 12^th, 14^th, 15^th, 22^nd, 23^rd, 24^th, 26^th, 28^th, 29^th, 30^th, 31^st, 36^th, 41^st, 42^nd, 53^rd, 60^th, 64^th
East Cambs. (Mid Cambs.) 16^th, 35^th , 45^th , 59^th, 63^rd, 65^th, 67^th, 66^th

1946 Regained 16^th, 45^th Landbeach, Cottenham, Swavesey, Bottisham VC, Impington VC

1972 Working as N and S Sub Districts

1974 Working as N and S and Crafts Hill Sub Districts

1983 Became separate Districts

North Cambridge 1^st, 3^rd, 10^th, 12^th, 14^th, 18^th, 26^th, 32^nd, 50^th, 54^th, 1^st Coton
South Cambridge 4^th, 5^th,7/23^rd, 11/9^th, 13^th, 15^th, 16^th, 27^th, 28^th, 29^th, 57^th,
Crafts Hill 1^st (Histon, Over, Bar Hill, Bourn, Willingham, Caldecote, Elworth and Boxwell) 2^nd Cottenham, Oakington, Swavesey, 6/17^th Cambridge, 48^th Cambridge

2001 North and South Cambridge re united (24/5/2001) At this point the Groups were

North Cambridge 1^st, 3^rd, 12^th, 14^th, 18^th, 26^th, 32^nd, 50^th, 54^th
South Cambridge 5^th,7/23^rd, 11/9^th, 13^th, 16^th, 27^th, 28^th, 29^th, 57^th, 1^st Fen Ditton

2012 Gained from Granta

To Cambridge Shelford and Stapleford, Duxford, Sawston
To Newmarket Linton and Abington
To Royston Harston, Bassingbourn ? +

Village names

The list is alphabetical but within each letter generally ordered by date of founding.

Many other villages were involved but not in the formal title. Harston had separate patrols for Harston, Hauxton, Harlston, Newton and Little Eversden.

Villages are often linked in titles, such as Sawston with Whittlesford. These variations are not listed here.

As the town boundaries grew villages such as Cherry Hinton became ‘town groups’ rather than ‘district groups’ which are labeled ‘D’.

As the overall district budded other districts many villages stepped outside the boundaries and their history is lost to these records.

Many Groups had several incarnations and the ‘district’ numbering system ended in 1935 so they have several numbers. Numbers were reused during some eras.

‘1^st’s are a change in naming system – 1^st Village rather than 21^st Cambridge (Village). 1^st D is the group currently labeled 1^st Cambridge District (Village)

Village	Number(s)
Abington	25^th
Balsham	1^st D
Bottisham	12^thD, 59^th
Barton	17^th D
Barlow	14^th D
Bassingbourne	9^th D
Brinkley	7^th D
Bourne	1^st
Cherry Hinton	1^st D
Cowlinge	10^th D
Coton	14^th D , 38^th
Castle Camps	11^th D
Cottenham	14^th D, 46^th
Comburton	48^th
Duxford	11^th D
Dry Drayton	6^th D
Ely	2^nd D
Elsworth	8^th D
Foxton	7^th D
Fen Ditton	13^th D, 43^rd
Fulbourn	18^th D, 57^th
Fowlmere	16^th D
Fen Drayton	55^th
Grantchester	5^th D, 62^nd, 68^th
Gransden	15^th D
Girton	5^th D
Gamlingay	10^th D, 1^st
Great Shelford	61^st
Harston	3^rd D, 7^th D
Haslingfield	4^th D, 56^th
Harlton	3^rdD
Histon	4^th D, 35^th, 1^st
Horseheath	19^th D
Hinton	Mention only
Hauxton	9^th
Longstanton	3^rd D, 56^th
Lolworth	3^rd D
Linton	9^th D, 5^th D, 69^th
Longstowe	2^nd D
Lode	66^th
Landbeach	45^th
Meldreth	4^th D
Melbourne	4^th D
Milton	13^th D, 65^th
Madingley	39^th
Newton	3^rd D, 9^th D
Newmarket	2^nd D, 16^th D
Over	10^th D
Papworth St Everard	6^th D, 50^th
Pampisford	47^th
Quy	58^th
Sutton	7^th D
Shelford	3^rd D
Shepreth	8^th D, 5^th D
Sawston	2^nd D, 10^th D, 37^th
Six Mile Bottom	Early ref, 49^th
Swavesey	10^th D, 37^th
Swaffen Bulbeck	67^th
Trumpington	5^th D, 44^th, 1^st
Whittlesford	2^nd D, 11^thD, 51^st
Willingham	3^rd D, 63^rd, 1^st
West Wratting	1^st D

JWR Archivist Mar 2019

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