Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARRINGTON

BARRINGTON, a parish in the district of Royston and county of Cambridge; on the river Cam, 6 miles W by S of Shelford r. station, and 7 SSW of Cambridge. It has a post office under Royston. Acres, 2,129. Real property, £3,792. Pop., 563. Houses, 111. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £107.* Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is old but good; and there are a neat Independent chapel, and charities £43.


(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: Barrington CP/AP       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Barrington

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