Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CARLTON-CUM-WILLINGHAM

CARLTON-CUM-WILLINGHAM, a parish in Linton district, Cambridge; on the verge of the county, 4¼ miles ESE of Six-Mile-Bottom r. station, and 7½ S of Newmarket. It has a post office, of the name of Carlton, under Newmarket. Acres, 2,200. Real property, £3,102. Pop., 402. Houses, 87. The property is divided among a few. Part of the land is common. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £287.* Patrons, the Trustees of the Rev. W. S. P. Wilder. The church is old but good; and has a monument of Sir T. Elliot, author of a Latin Dictionary and other works. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Carlton CP/AP       Linton RegD/PLU       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Carlton

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