We know the ownership of this site back to the
1641 map. This is fully described on the Giddings website. For
a while before 1780 it was occupied by a butcher, but from then
until
1890 blacksmiths lived there. First Jeffery Heighton (also a leading
light in establishing the Baptist Chapel in Great Gidding) and
then his son-in-law William Austin. After another William Austin,
in the 1890s it passed back to a butcher – William Yeomans. The
buildings – a cottage and adjoining shop – were replaced in the
1920s.
