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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Botolphbridge like this:
BOTOLPH-BRIDGE, or Bottle-Bridge, a parish in the district of Peterborough and county of Huntingdon; near the river Nen and the Great Northern railway, 2 miles SW of Peterborough. Post Town, Peterborough. The statistics are returned with Orton-Longville. The manor belonged to the Draytons, the Lovells, and the Shirleys. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of OrtonLongville, in the diocese of Ely. The church is in ruins.
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Orton Longueville | 2 | 4 |
Longthorpe | 1 | 2 |
Peterborough | 53 | 6 |
Fletton | 0 | 2 |
Orton Waterville | 2 | 3 |
Alwalton | 0 | 2 |
Stanground | 0 | 3 |
Milton Park | 0 | 2 |
Eastfield | 0 | 2 |
Walton | 0 | 2 |
Dogsthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Newark | 0 | 1 |
Castor | 10 | 2 |
Chesterton | 1 | 2 |
Yaxley | 0 | 2 |
Haddon | 0 | 2 |
Paston | 0 | 2 |
Gunthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Marholm | 0 | 2 |