In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bluntisham like this:
BLUNTISHAM, a township and a parish in St. Ives district, Huntingdon. The township lies on the river Ouse, 3 miles SE of Somersham r. station, and 4½ NE of St. Ives; and has a post office under St. Ives. Real property, £4,961. The parish includes also the hamlet of Earith. Acres, 3,423. ...
Real property, £9,747. Pop., 1,351. Houses, 314. The property is much subdivided. The manor was given, in 1015, to Ely Abbey. Bluntisham House is the seat of the Tebbuts. Part of the land is fen. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £1,010.* Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is early English; terminates, in the east, in a half hexagon; and has a screen, a piscina, and an octagonal font. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists, and Quakers. An endowed school has £88 a year; other charities £138. Dr. Knight, author of Lives of Erasmus and Dean Colet, was rector.
Bluntisham through time
Bluntisham is now part of Huntingdonshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Huntingdonshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bluntisham itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7152
Date accessed: 06th November 2024
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