Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHILDERLEY

CHILDERLEY, a parish in Chesterton district, Cambridge; 3¼ miles NE of Caxton, and 4½ WSW of Oakington r. station. Post town, Dry Drayton, under Cambridge. Acres, 1, 052. Real property, £1, 170. Pop., 50. Houses, 10. The parish is a meet for the Cambridge hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £20. Patron, N. Calvert, Esq. The church is in ruins.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Childerley CP/AP       Chesterton RegD/PLU       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Childerley

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