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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Abington like this:
ABINGTON (Great), a parish in Linton district, Cambridge. It contains the village of Abington, and the seats of Abington House, Abington Hall, and Abington Park. Acres, 1,500. Real property, £2,291. Pop., 330. Houses, 62. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £120. Patron, T. Mortlock, Esq. The church is early English.
Great Abington 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 Great Abington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Great Abington, in South Cambridgeshire and Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2176
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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