In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Parson Drove like this:
PARSON-DROVE, a village and a chapelry in Leverington parish, Cambridge. The village stands ¾ of a mile S of the boundary with Lincoln, and 4½ W of Wisbeach r. station; and has a post-office under Wisbeach. The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Drove-Fen, Swan-Gull, and Murrow. ...
Acres, 4, 460. Real property, £8, 871. Pop. in 1851, 946; in 1861, 876. Houses, 193. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £271.* Patrons, Trustees. The church was built a shorttime before the Reformation; is in the early English style; and consists of nave and aisles with a tower.
Parson Drove through time
Parson Drove is now part of Fenland district. Click here for graphs and data of how Fenland has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Parson Drove itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Parson Drove, in Fenland and Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3822
Date accessed: 09th May 2024
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