Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GUYHIRN

GUYHIRN, a chapelry, with a railway station, in Wisbeach St. Mary parish, Cambridge; on the New Nen river, 6½ miles SW of Wisbeach. It has a postoffice under Wisbeach. Pop., nearly 600. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £80. Patron, the Vicar of Wisbeach.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Guyhirn

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