In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Over like this:
OVER, a village and a parish in the district of St. Ives and county of Cambridge. The village stands 1 mile E of the river Ouse at the boundary with Hunts, 1¼ N N E of Swavesey r. station, and 4½ E by S of St. Ives; and has a post-office under St. Ives, a neat town hall built in 1849, and two inns. ...
The parish comprises 3, 700 acres. Real property, £9, 307. Pop. in 1851, 1, 256; in 1861, 1, 146. Houses, 236. The principal manor belongs to E. Foster, Esq.; and a smaller one, to Merton College, Oxford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £150.* Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is ancient and handsome; the W door has a carving of the " Virgin clothed with the sun; " the body has undergone considerable repair; the N aisle was rebuilt in 1847; the tower and spire were renovated, at a cost of £600, in 1864. There are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, an endowed school with £20 a year, town lands yielding £366, and other charities £15.
Over through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Over in South Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4624
Date accessed: 30th April 2024
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