MOULTON, a village and a parish in the district of Newmarket and county of Suffolk. The village stands on the river Lark, near Icknield-street, 1¼ mile NE of the boundary with Cambridge, 2 S by W of Kennet r. station, and 3½ E by N of Newmarket; was once a market-town; and has a post office under Newmarket. The parish comprises 3,134 acres. Real property, £3,653. Pop., 518. Houses, 99. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £700.* Patron, Christ's College, Cambridge. The church is later English; was restored in 1851, at a cost of more than £2,000; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and lofty tower. There are an Independent chapel, a parochial school, and charities £111.

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