Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURROUGH-GREEN

BURROUGH-GREEN, a parish in Newmarket district, Cambridge; 2¾ miles ESE of Dullingham r. station, and 5½ S of Newmarket. It has a post office under Newmarket. Acres, 2,217. Real property, £3,461. Pop., 427. Houses, 93. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £705.* Patron, Charles Porcher, Esq. The church is old but good, and has a tower and several ancient monuments. There is an endowed school with £30 a year.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Burrough Green CP/AP       Newmarket RegD/PLU       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Burrough Green

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