Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WRESTLINGWORTH

WRESTLINGWORTH, a parish, with a village, in Biggleswade district, Beds; 2¾ miles ESE of Potton r. station. It has a post-office under St. Neots. Acres, 1,620. Real property, £2,441. Pop., 657. Houses, 139. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £150.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English and good. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £61.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wrestlingworth CP/AP       Biggleswade RegD/PLU       Bedfordshire AncC
Place: Wrestlingworth

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