In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Friday Bridge like this:
FRIDAY-BRIDGE, a chapelry in Elm parish, Cambridge; near the Wisbeach canal and the Cambridge and Wisbeach railway, 3 miles SSE of Wisbeach. It was constituted in 1860; and it has a post office under Wisbeach. Pop., 869. Houses, 168. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church was built in 1865.
Additional information about this locality is available for Elm
Friday Bridge through time
A Vision of Britain through Time includes a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Friday Bridge has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of Fenland. More detailed statistical data are available under Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units covering Friday Bridge and units named after it.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Friday Bridge, in Fenland and Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23832
Date accessed: 18th May 2013
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