Place:


Mepal  Cambridgeshire

 

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

MEPAL, a village and a parish in Ely district, Cambridge. The village stands on the New Bedford river, 5 miles SE of Chatteris r. station, and 6½ W by N of Ely; and has a post office under Ely. The parish comprises 1,452 acres. Real property, £3,963. Pop., 510. Houses, 115. Fortreys Hall and Widdens are chief places. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £280. * Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ely. The church is early English, and was restored in 1850. There are a dissenting chapel, an endowed school with £15 a year, and charities £158.

Mepal through time

Mepal is now part of East Cambridgeshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Cambridgeshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Mepal itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Mepal in East Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4623

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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