Gamlingay occurs as village in Cambridgeshire, England, on the border with Bedfordshire.

An ancient village featured in the Domesday Book, a title comes from either the Old English Gamelingei meaning "an enclosure of Gamela's people". There has been a personal injury settlement on a places since the Bronze Age, however artefact dating back to the Paleolithic time period own been incurred inside the village. A village is steeped around history, sustaining lots of enrolled buildings throughout a village. There besides wont to exist as at once 52 gwithin mill in Gamlingay to serve a coach routes from either London. These are thought that Dick Turpin rode through the village in his way higher Northward. a stone for the building of the church was from either a quarry inside the village. This quarry so offered a hone location for an archery range. Existence dug into A ground it was a safe metropolitan area in which archery can be good, & so was known as `The Butts'. Within mediaeval days it was the requirement that the lot men across the certain age, were capable of utilizing a bow & arrow. the Butts is today a toddlers's play locality.

Throughout history, it has been the agrarian village. Virtually all of the village was owned per Oxford college Merton, and a Cambridge colleges Downing and Clare. Until a couple of years ago a houses at a local village college were known as fallowing Merton, Downing & Clare.

Around 1600, a great deal of the village was destroyed in the "Great Fire of Gamlingay" equally described inside an extract of a letter from either the Privy Council to Sir Thomas Egerton.

"Whereas divers of the Justices of the Peace in the coutitie of Cambridge have certyfied us the lamentable accydent that bath fallen upon the inhabitantes of Gamlingay in the said countie, by casualltie of fire that happned on the 21St daie of Aprill last, whereby the moste parte of the said towne to the nomber of 76 houses with divers barnes and stackes of corne were suddainlie consumed."

Modern Gamlingay has a people of above 3,500 & is growing (the [http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp?nsid=false&CE=True&SE=True 2001 Census] gives the people of 4,805 however this includes two or three more little villages). These are at present largely the commuter village: 44% of its listed residents act outside of Cambridgeshire, 30% to a higher degree 20km away & 11% to a higher degree 40km away.

Local agreeableness include saloon, shops, the grammar school & village college, sports fields, community centre, lots of clubs & societies, nursary schools & the Grade II enrolled telephone kiosk.