Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for THETFORD

THETFORD, a chapelry in Stretham parish, Cambridge; 2¾ miles S by W of Ely r. station. It has a post-office under Ely. Acres, 1,630. Real property, £2,865. Pop., 306. Houses, 64. The living is annexed to Stretham. The church was partly rebuilt in 1863.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stretham AP/CP       Thetford CP/Ch       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Thetford

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