Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WITCHFORD

WITCHFORD, a parish and a hundred in Cambridge. The parish lies 3 miles W by S of Ely r. station, and has a postal pillar-box under Ely. Acres, 2,376. Real property, £5,266. Pop., 559. Houses, 118. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £230.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ely. The church was restored in 1851.-The hundred contains 12 parishes; and is cut into two divisions, N and S. Acres, 59,823 and 37,462. Pop. in 1851, 16,243 and 8,564; in 1861, 29,827. Houses, 6,602.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Witchford AP/CP       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Witchford

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