The name of Wilbraham comes from the villages of Little Wilbraham and Great Wilbraham located near Cambridge, England.

By the 1260s it was known as Great Wilbraham and right before that King's Wilbraham.

The manor house of Great Wilbraham was there temple and today it is still standing and is a house.

One statement within the Wilbraham Town History Book of 1963 states that a trustee of the Wilbraham & Monson Academy was attending Oxford University and found the following in a history book: That the two villages of Little Wilbraham and Great Wilbraham came into existence because Alfred the Great, an English King who upon hunting wild boar in a very good spot about 60 miles northeast of London, designated that spot as Wild Boar Haven.

However Haven was later changed to Ham and over the years the three separate words became combined and distorted until you had Wilbraham. It was also found that Little Wilbraham and Great Wilbraham were named after an individual named Wilbur.

Great Wilbraham is a small village situated in a rural area some seven miles ( 11 km ) to the east of Cambridge, between the edge of an area of low-lying drained fens to the west and north, and higher ground beyond the A11 to the east.

The administrative authorities are Cambridgeshire County Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council, and Great Wilbraham Parish Council.

The parish of Great Wilbraham has been occupied for thousands of years ; a Neolithic camp was excavated in the west of the parish in 1976, and a Bronze Age barrow, where up to eight burials were discovered in 1852, lies alongside the Fleam Dyke in the southern corner of the parish.

The medieval history of Great Wilbraham is tied up with that of neighbouring Little Wilbraham, and they were first distinguished in the 13th century when it was also known as King's Wilbraham.

Great Wilbraham is mostly residential in nature.

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