Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Grantchester

Grantchester, par. and vil., on river Cam, in co. and 2½ miles SW. of Cambridge, 1591 ac., pop. 1147; P.O., called Granchester.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Grantchester AP/CP       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place names: GRANCHESTER     |     GRANTCHESTER
Place: Grantchester

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