Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FRIDAY-BRIDGE

FRIDAY-BRIDGE, a chapelry in Elm parish, Cambridge; near the Wisbeach canal and the Cambridge and Wisbeach railway, 3 miles SSE of Wisbeach. It was constituted in 1860; and it has a post office under Wisbeach. Pop., 869. Houses, 168. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church was built in 1865.


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

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

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