MEPAL, a village and a parish in Ely district, Cambridge. The village stands on the New Bedford river, 5 miles SE of Chatteris r. station, and 6½ W by N of Ely; and has a post office under Ely. The parish comprises 1,452 acres. Real property, £3,963. Pop., 510. Houses, 115. Fortreys Hall and Widdens are chief places. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £280. * Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ely. The church is early English, and was restored in 1850. There are a dissenting chapel, an endowed school with £15 a year, and charities £158.

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