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Newton

Church Street and Tort Hill are very much "Old Sawtry". It was not until 1970 that the Newton Road development started. The first part of this estate was constructed from Fen Lane North,

Construction of this section and Rectory Close had been completed by 1983 and no further building was undertaken until 1988. Then the extension from Manor Drive north towards Church Causeway was constructed taking in the only hill inside the Sawtry boundary.

Construction of these houses was complete by 1995. For some years Tinkers Lane remained a narrow, one way lane, edged by high hedges. However, by 1999, further development had taken place along with some in-filling on Church Causeway to completely fill the available land.

All Saints Church dates from the late 1800s. By the time the church was constructed Church Causeway had long since ceased to be anything other a normal track. However, a church on the same site built two hundred years earlier may well have been accessed only by a causeway as the Port of Sawtry was only a few hundred yards to the north just beyond Tort Hill.

Sawtry takes its name from the salt it exported: Saltream.