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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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BOTTISHAM, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Newmarket district, Cambridge. The village stands on an affluent of the river Cam, 3½ miles NNE of Fulbourn r. station, and 6½ ENE of Cambridge; and it has a post office under Newmarket, and is a seat of petty sessions. The parish includes also the hamlets of Lode and Longmeadow. Acres, 4,700. Real property, £8,830. Pop., 1,508. Houses, 332. The property is much subdivided. Bottisham Hall is the seat of the Jenyns family. Traces exist at Anglesey of an Augustinian priory, founded in the time of Henry I. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £268.* Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is early English, good, and beautiful. The vicarage of Lode is a separate benefice. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists, and two national schools.-The subdistrict contains two parishes and most of another. Acres, with Newmarket subdistrict, 28,323. Pop., 3,373. Houses, 754.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a subdistrict" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Bottisham AP/CP Bottisham SubD Newmarket RegD/PLU Cambridgeshire AncC |
| Place: | Bottisham |
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