Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PAMPISFORD

PAMPISFORD, a parish, with a village, in Linton district, Cambridge; 1 mile E of Whittlesford r. station, 1¾ N of the boundary with Essex, and 4½ W N W of Linton. Post-town, Babraham, under Cambridge. Acres, 1, 500. Real property, £2, 377. Pop., 347. Houses, 80. Pampisford Hall and much of the land belong to W. P. Hamond, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £85.* Patron, E. J. Mortlock, Esq. The church is a neat building, with traces of Norman; and has a tower and spire. There are a parochial school, and charities £35.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Pampisford CP/AP       Linton RegD/PLU       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Pampisford

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