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PARSON-DROVE, a village and a chapelry in Leverington parish, Cambridge. The village stands ¾ of a mile S of the boundary with Lincoln, and 4½ W of Wisbeach r. station; and has a post-office under Wisbeach. The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Drove-Fen, Swan-Gull, and Murrow. Acres, 4, 460. Real property, £8, 871. Pop. in 1851, 946; in 1861, 876. Houses, 193. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £271.* Patrons, Trustees. The church was built a shorttime before the Reformation; is in the early English style; and consists of nave and aisles with a tower.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Leverington Parish Parson Drove Parish Cambridgeshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Parson Drove |
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