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Demographics of Newnham and Romsey Romsey is 9% students and has a younger median age than Newnham Newnham is 10% over 65 and it's becoming unaffordable to young people
Socio economic features of Newnham and Romsey Romsey was an industrial area with working class residents in the past but now has experienced gentrification. The median house price is £430 000.14% low income households. Newnham has middle and upper class population median property price of £830 000 only 3%low income households
What happened in 1852 in Newnham? Fellows at the university colleges were able to keep their fellowship when they got married so they moved out and had kids so Newnham grew in population
Flows of resources money and investment in Newnham ☆ Lib Dem political environment 1996-2022 campaigns to protect Lammas Land recycling points ☆ 2023 elected green party to protect green spaces from student housing ☆ Huge investment in the west Cambridge university site (science & tech) £36 million ☆ Development of Newnham largely controlled by university
Newnham Past connections ☆ University founded in 120 ☆ Roman settlement on what is now the west cambridge site ☆ Colleges were major source of employment ☆ Positioned on the River Cam which was an essential travel and trade route when the railway was built river trade decreased
Newnham Present Day Connections ☆West Cambridge site is home to the British Antarctic Survey ☆ Red bricks used in Newnham College's Dorothy Garrod building came from Gloucestershire.
Key points about Romsey ☆ Was open fields before the railway arrived location of railway led to urbanisation and development of Romsey ☆ Enclosure acts of the 1800s dismantled open fields/green spaces and they were sold for housing ☆ Historically associated with railway for employment NOT university
Flows of people and ideas in Romsey ☆ Mill Road gets congested ☆ Labour politics - nicknamed 'RedRomsey' after communism ☆ 1920s saw a high boom of middle class people moving in gentrifying the area
Past connections of Romsey ☆ When Romsey was built it was the time of the BritishEmpire and this is reflected in the buildings ☆ The yellow bricks used for many of the houses in Romsey are Cambridge White and are locally sourced
Romsey Present day connections ☆ Mill Road Winter Fair is an annual fair on the first Saturday in December attendance grew from 10 000 in 2005 to 20 000 in 2009 ☆ Romsey Labour Club is affiliated with the national labour party ☆The EcoMosque's biggest individual donation (£16 million) was from Turkey
Flows of resources money and investment in Romsey ☆ Romsey house - a tudor mansion ☆ Isolation hospital for infectious diseases built in 1893 ☆ Cambridge Central Mosque - December 2019 designed sustainably with individual donations funding for £26 million cost