Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DULLINGHAM

DULLINGHAM, a parish in Newmarket district, Cambridge; on the Cambridge and Newmarket railway, 4 miles SSW of Newmarket. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Newmarket. Acres, 3, 240. Real property, £4, 689. Pop., 800. Houses, 181. Dullingham House is the seat of Mrs. Pigot. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £165.* Patron, Mrs. Pigot. The church is ancient, with a tower; was stripped of superstitions decorations in 1643; and has an old font. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and charities £123.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Dullingham Parish       Newmarket Poor Law Union/Registration District       Cambridgeshire Ancient County
Place: Dullingham

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