Shadow Paranormal - Old Rectory Care Home

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Published Dec 5, 2020

The team recently discovered a care home in Cambridgeshire that had been abandoned for the last 20 years. With numerous deaths taking place inside over the years and a previous life as the old village rectory it seemed a perfect location for their next investigation...

Formerly the rectory to the adjacent All Saints church which dates from the 12th century. The rectory house had six hearths in the mid-17th century but by 1836 was said to be 'a mere hut and in ruins'. It was later completely rebuilt in yellow brick under a Welsh Slate roof, probably between 1855 and 1862. It was sold by the church in 1982 and a year later opened as a private residential home for old people in 1983. It’s hard to pin down when the place closed-down but it appears the home shut its doors some time around 2000, possibly because of new regulations surrounding care homes and the fact that rooms had to be on-suite. Hence the place has been left to decay for close on to two decades.

The edge of the Fens were well-populated during Roman times and Rampton was no exception. The settlement apparently vanished after the Roman era and reappeared around the area of the present church in Anglo Saxon times. The earthwork remains of a castle, known as Giant's Hill, are located to the east of the village by the church. Construction of the castle began during The Anarchy circa 1140, but was likely never completed.

Rampton has always been one of the smallest of the area's villages along the edge of the Fens. The Domesday Book listed 19 tenants, and there were only 31 families in 1563 and 39 households in 1664. At the time of the first census in 1801 there were 162 inhabitants, rising to 220 in 1821 and 250 in 1871 but dropping to under 180 in 1901. After slow growth to 221 by 1951, its growth mirrored that of neighbouring villages in rising to 355 in 1981 and 440 in 2001.

The origin of the name is unclear but may well simply come from "ram tun" or "village of the ram"

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