FARCETT, a chapelry in Standground parish, Huntingdon; on the Great Northern railway, near the Old river Nen, 2¾ miles S by E of Peterborough. Post town, Peterborough. Acres, 3, 408. Real property, £8, 391. Pop., 778. Houses, 159. Much of the surface is fen. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Standground, in the diocese of Ely. The church is ancient. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, an endowed school, and charities £15.

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