Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Fordham

Fordham.-- par. and vil. with ry. sta., E. Cambridgeshire, 5 miles N. of Newmarket, 4050 ac., pop. 1191; 1 mile S. of vil. is the seat of Fordham Abbey.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Fordham CP/AP       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Fordham

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