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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WATERBEACH, a parish, with a village, in Chesterton district, Cambridgeshire; on the river Cam and on the Cambridge and Ely railway, 5¼ miles NNE of Cambridge. It has a post-office‡ under Cambridge, and a r. station. Acres, 5,556. Real property, £10,916. Pop., 1,435. Houses, 316. The property is much subdivided. There are extensive market-gardens. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £605.* Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church is partly early English and all good. There are three dissenting chapels, an endowed school with £101 a year, six alms houses, and other charities nearly £270. See Denny-Abbey.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Waterbeach AP/CP Chesterton RegD/PLU Cambridgeshire AncC |
| Place: | Waterbeach |
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