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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Denny Abbey like this:
DENNY-ABBEY, a place in Waterbeach parish, Cambridgeshire; near the Ely railway and the river Cam, 7½ miles NNE of Cambridge. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Ely, was early founded here, and given to the Knights Templars; and a nunnery was built on the priory's site, in the time of Edward III., and has left remains.
Denny Abbey is now part of SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Denny Abbey itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Denny Abbey, in South Cambridgeshire and Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25719
Date accessed: 11th February 2026
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