In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Trumpington like this:
TRUMPINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Chesterton district, Cambridgeshire; 2 miles S of Cambridge r. station. It has a post-office under Cambridge. Acres, 2,200. Real property, £6,002. Pop., 716. Houses, 159. T. Hall is the seat of Mrs. Pemberton; Anstey Hall, of E. B. Foster, Esq.; and there are several neat villas. ...
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £241.* Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is early decorated English, and contains the oldest brass but one in England. There is a national school. The village is mentioned in one of Chaucer's Tales. There is a large national school.
Trumpington through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Trumpington, in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4630
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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