OFFORD-DARCY, a village and a parish in St. Neots district, Huntingdon. The village stands on the river Ouse and on the Great Northern railway, ½ a mile S of Offord r. station, and 4½ N N E of St. Neots. The parish comprises 1,827 acres; and its post town is Buckden, under Huntingdon. Real property, £2, 374 Pop., 437. Houses, 89. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged formerly to the Nailours; and the manor-house is now a farm-house. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £400.* Patron, G. Thornhill, Esq. The church is of the 12th century; was restored in 1861, at a cost of £1, 100; and contains a piscina, a mutilated brass of 1377, two other brasses, and monuments of the Nailours. There is a Baptist chapel.

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