WILLINGHAM, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Chesterton district, Cambridge. The village stands 1½ mile N of Long Stanton r. station, and 6¼ E by S of S.T. Ives; and has a post-office under St. Ives, Hunts. The parish comprises 4,663 acres. Real property, £9,149. Pop., 1,630. Houses, 379. Large quantities of cheese are made. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £677.* Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church is decorated English, large, and good; includes a N chapel, with singularly constructed stone roof; and has a lofty pinnacled tower. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school with £35 a year, alms houses with £35, and other charities £20.—The sub-district contains 13 parishes. Acres, 33,215. Pop., 9,633. Houses, 2,147.

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