Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRAFFHAM

GRAFFHAM, a parish in St. Neots district, Hunts; on the Kettering and Cambridge railway, 4½ miles ENE of Kimbolton. It has a r. station, and includes part of Perry hamlet. Post town, Buckden, under Huntingdon. Acres, 2, 380. Real property, £2, 258. Pop., 328. Houses, 64. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, 199.* Patron, the Duke of Manchester. The church is ancient but good; consists of nave, chancel, and aisles; and has a western tower, with broach spire. There are a public school, and charities, including town-lands, £50.


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

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

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