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EVERSDEN (Great), a parish in Caxton district, Cambridge; near Bourn brook and Nare way, adjacent to the Bedford and Cambridge railway, near Old North Road r. station, 5 miles SE by S of Caxton. It has a post office under Cambridge. Acres, 1, 200. Real property, £1, 729. Pop., 314. Houses, 67. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £59. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient. There are an Independent chapel and a British school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Great Eversden Parish Caxton Poor Law Union/Registration District Cambridgeshire Ancient County |
| Place names: | EVERSDEN | EVERSDEN GREAT | GREAT EVERSDEN |
| Place: | Great Eversden |
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