Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described North Witchford like this:

WITCHFORD (North), a district in the N of Cambridge; containing March and Chatteris sub-districts. Acres, 59,823. Poor rates in 1863, £9,336. Pop. in 1851, 16,243; in 1861, 14,791. Houses, 3,249. Marriages in 1866, 98; births, 479,-of which 44 were illegitimate; deaths, 247,-of which 92 were at ages under 5 years, and 5 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,193; births, 5,615; deaths, 3,201. The places of worship, in 1851, were 5 of the Church of England , with 1,748 sittings; 1 of Independ...

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ents, with 520 s.; 8 of Baptists, with 2,164 s.; 1 of Quakers, with 190 .s.; 10 of Wesleyans, with 1,960 s.; 5 of Primitive Methodists, with 698 s.; 1 of Wesleyan Reformers, with 420 s.; 1 undefined, with 400 s.; and 1 of Latter Day Saints, with 120 s. The schools were 8 public day-schools, with 1,164 scholars; 52 private day-schools, with 1,061 s.; 21 Sunday schools, with 1,537 s.; and 1 evening school for adults, with 23 s. The workhouse is in Doddington.

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