Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HASLINGFIELD

HASLINGFIELD, a village and a parish in Chesterton district, Cambridge. The village stands on the river Cam, 2 miles NNE of Harston r. station, and 5½ SW by S of Cambridge; and has a post office under Cambridge. The parish comprises 2, 527 acres. Real property, £3, 440. Pop., 762. Houses, 150. The property is divided aniong a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £657. * Patron, John Mitchell, Esq. The church is early English, and was recently in disrepair. There are a national school, with £45 a year from endowment, and other charities with £67.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Haslingfield AP/CP       Chesterton RegD/PLU       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Haslingfield

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