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FOXTON, a village and a parish in the district of Royston and county of Cambridge. The village stands near the Hitchen andrailway, 6½ miles NE of Royston; has a post office under Royston, and a r. station; was once a market-town; and has still a fair on Easter Monday. The parish comprises 1, 727 acres. Real property, £3, 006. Pop., 405. Houses, 90. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £79.* Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is good; and there are town-lands with £12.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Foxton Parish Cambridgeshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Foxton |
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