Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CROYDON-CUM-CLAPTON

CROYDON-CUM-CLAPTON, a parish in Caxton district, Cambridge; 3¾ miles W by N of Shepreth r. station, and 6 S of Caxton. Post town, Arrington, under Royston. Acres, 2, 711. Rated property, £2, 080. Pop., 508. Houses, 102. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory and a vicarage-Clapton a rectory, Croydon a vicarage-in the diocese of Ely. Value, £449.* Patron, J. F. Gape, Esq. The church is good; and there is a national school.


(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: Croydon CP/AP       Caxton RegD/PLU       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Croydon

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