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Information about Arrington circa 1900

ARRINGTON is a parish, on the Ermine Street, about 3 miles south from Old North Road station on the Bedford and Cambridge branch of the Londaon and North Western railway, 6 north-west from Royston and 10 south-west from Cambridge, in the Western division of the country, hundred of Wetherley, petty sessional division of Arrington and Melbourn, union of Caxton, county court district of Cambridge, rural deanery of Barton, archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. The church of St. Nicholas is a small but ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the perpendicular style with some reputed Saxon remains, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled tower of brick with a low spire and containing one bell: the church was restored in 1894 at a cost of £300, and affords 150 sittings.

The register of marriages and burials dates from the year 1538; baptisms, 1550. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £35, in the gift of Trinity College, Cam-bridge, and held since 1897 by the Rev. George Dawson Cartwright B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who is also rector of and resides at Wimpole. The great tithes are vested in Trinity College, Cambridge. Sarah, late Countess of Hardwicke, erected six almshouses in I 846 opposite the entrance to Wimpole Hall, two for married persons and four for single men or women. The whole of the parish belongs to Viscount Clifden, who is lord of the manor. The soil is clayey; subsoil, chalk and gault. The chief crops are wheat, oats and beans, and there is also a large amount of pasture.' 'The area is 1,407 acres; rateable value, £993; the population in 1891 was 215.

Arrington Bridge is 1 mile south over the Cam.

Sexton, David Charter.

Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0. Express Delivery, Parcel Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Josepb Smoothy, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Royston at 6 a.m. & 12.20 p.m.; dispatched at 8 p.m.; dispatched on sundays at 6 p.m

COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR ARRINGTON PETTY SESSIONAL SUB-DIVJSION.
Briscoe John James esq. D.L. Bourn hall, Cambridge
Clark William John esq. Thripton, Cambs
Fordham E. Snow esq. Elbrook house, Ashwell
Fordham Herbert George esq. Odsey, AshweIl, Baldock R.S.O. Herts
Fordham Wolverley A. esq. Ashwell, Baldock R.S.O. Herts
Humphry Allred Paget earl. Foxton house, Foxton Rovston
Phillips Joseph Edward esq. Royston, Herts
Clerk, Hale Wortham, Royston

Petty Sessions are held monthly at the Police station every fourth monday at 11 a.m. The following places are included in the petty sessional sub-division:- Arrington, Croydon, Evereden (Great), Hatley (East). Orwell, Tadlow & Wimpole, but cases arising within the places included in the other sub-division (Melbourn) are also heard & dealt with at Arrington when found convenient National School (mixed), built in 1878, for 6o children; average attendance, 44; Miss Jennings, mistress Police Station, erected about the year 1866, Henry Wilderspin, superintendent Melbourn & Arrington divisions; one sergeant & nine constables

Bullen Jacob, farmer
Copping Alfred, baker
Corney Henry, Miller (wind)
Gribble Maurice, farmer, Church farm
Newell David, blacksmith
Paine George, farm bailiff to John Jarman esq.
Russell William Jackson. Hardwicke Arms hotel; every accommodation for commercial travellers, cyclists, tourists; posting, good stabling
Smoothy Joseph, grocer & draper, Post office
Weary John Tooker, farmer, Eight Elms
Wilderspin Henry, Supt. Of police