Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BENWICK

BENWICK, a chapelry in Doddington parish, Cambridge; in the Isle of Ely, 4 ¼ miles NW of Chatteris r. station, and 6½ SW of March. Post Town, Doddington, under March. Acres, 3,096. Real property, £7,040. Pop., 773. Houses, 162. The living is a rectory. The church is recent. There are two dissenting chapels.


(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: Benwick CP/Ch       Doddington CP/AP       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Benwick

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