MADINGLEY, a parish in Chesterton district, Cambridgeshire; adjacent to the Via Devana, 5 miles WNW of Cambridge r. station. Post town, Cambridge. Acres, 1,163. Real property £2,252. Pop 279. Houses 58. The Manor House, an old brick structure, was the seat of the Cotton family, and is now the residence of Lady King. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £120. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church is a neat edifice, with later English spire. There is a recently erected national school.

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