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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Little Wilbraham like this:
WILBRAHAM (Little), a parish in Chesterton district, Cambridgeshire; 1¾ mile NNW of Six-Mile-Bottom r. station, and 6 E of Cambridge. It includes Six-Mile-Bottom hamlet, and has a post-office under Cambridge. Acres, 1,800. Real property, £2,705. Pop., 353. Houses, 87. Spears, swords, knives, axes, bronze fibulæ, glass beads, pottery, and other relics were found here in an ancient Saxon cemetery. ...
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £326.* Patron, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The church was recently repaired. There are a national school, a charity of £71 a year, and a commonage of 30 acres.
Little Wilbraham is now part of SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Little Wilbraham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Little Wilbraham, in South Cambridgeshire and Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1606
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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