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GAMLINGAY, a village and a parish in Caxton district, Cambridge. The village stands on the verge of the county, near the Bedford and Cambridge railway, 2 miles NNE of Potton; is large and populous; was once a market-town; and has now a station on the railway, and a post office under St. Neots. The parish contains also the hamlet of Woodbury. Acres, 4, 143. Real property, £9, 578. Pop., 2, 004. Houses, 393. The property is divided among a few. The living is twofold, a vicarage and a rectory, in the diocese of Ely. Value of the vicarage, £288;* of the rectory, £256. Patron of the former, the Bishop of Ely; of the latter, Merton College, Oxford. The church is early English and very handsome. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists There are also national and British schools. Lane's alms-houses, for ten widows, have £60; and other charities £11. Sir G. Downing, the founder of Downing college, was a resident.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Gamlingay AP/CP Caxton RegD/PLU Cambridgeshire AncC |
| Place: | Gamlingay |
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