SHELFORD (Little), a parish, with a village, in Chesterton district, Cambridge; ½ a mile WSW of Shelford r. station, and 4½ S of Cambridge. It has a post-office under Cambridge. Acres, 1,200. Real property, £2,534. Pop. in 1851, 580; in 1861, 474. Houses, 102. The manor belongs to J. E. Law, Esq. The manor-house is the residence of Mrs. Gray; and S. Hall, of Col. R. G. Wale. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £400.* Patron, J. E. Law, Esq. The church is decorated English. There is an Independent chapel.

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