Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Swaffham Prior (or Great Swaffham)

Swaffham Prior (or Great Swaffham), par. and vil. with ry. sta., Cambridgeshire, in SE. of co.- par., 5279 ac., pop. 1078; vil., 8 miles NE. of Cambridge; P.O.; in vicinity is Swaffham House.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Swaffham Prior CP/AP       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place names: GREAT SWAFFHAM     |     SWAFFHAM PRIOR     |     SWAFFHAM PRIOR OR GREAT SWAFFHAM
Place: Swaffham Prior

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