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Information about Little Abington circa 1900

LITTLE ABINGTON is a parish and village, on the north side of the river Granta and on the road from Cambridge to Linton and Haverhill, about 1 mile north from the Pampisford station on the Cambridge Melford section of the Great Eastern railway, 3 north-west from Linton and 8 south-east from Cambridge, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Chilford, union and petty sessional division of Linton, county court district of Saffron Walden, rural deanery of Camps, second division, and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, The church of St. Mary is an ancient structure of flint and rubble, in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, north ransept, sourth porch and an embattled western tower containing one bell: the church was thoroughly restored in 1885 at the cost of the vicar, when a stained east window was presented by EdmundJohn Mortlock esq. The patron, and an organ by Edgar Barker esq. Of Abington hall: there are 120 sittings, 100 being free. The register dates from about the year 1668, the libing is a vicarage, net yearly value £80, with residence and including 71 acres of glebem in the gift of E.J. Mortlock esq. And held since 1892 by the rev. Arther Worsley Smyth M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, who is also vicar of Great Abington. Edmund John Mortlock esq. Of Great Abington and Bene't street, Cambridge is lord of the manor. Denys A. Shine lawlor Huddleston esq. Of Sawston hall and Thoms Benjamin kent esq. Are the principal landowners. The soil is mixed; subsoil , chalk and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1, 309 acres; rateable value, £ 982; the population in 1891 was 268.

Parish Clerk and Sexton, Alfred Cutter.

Post & M.O., S.B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Mrs Louisa Goodes, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Cambridge at 6.10a.m. & 3.15p.m.; dispatched at 7.50p.m. The nearest telegraph office

is at linton, 3 miles distant.

The place is included in the united School Board district of Great & Little Abington, formed in 1873. The children attend Great Abington School.

Carrier to Cambridge.- Henry Unwin, Wed. & Sat

Kent Albert
Kent Thomas Benjamin
Smyth Rev. Arthur Worsley M.A. Vicarage
Atherton Saml. Walt. Beer ret. & boot ma
Burnder John, Princess of Wales Inn
Fordham Alfred Edward, farmer, Bancrodt farm
Fornachan Emile, gardener to E.J. Mortlock esq
Gilbey John Harley, gamekeeper to Percy B. Hall esq
Goodes William, naturalist
Kent Albert, farmer, Ley Rectory, Grange & Vicarage farms
Rickett John, sen. Stone mason
Shed Mark, beer retailer
Unwin, Henry, farmer & carrier
Mortlock earl