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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Benwick like this:
BENWICK, a chapelry in Doddington parish, Cambridge; in the Isle of Ely, 4 ¼ miles NW of Chatteris r. station, and 6½ SW of March. Post Town, Doddington, under March. Acres, 3,096. Real property, £7,040. Pop., 773. Houses, 162. The living is a rectory. The church is recent. There are two dissenting chapels.
Benwick is now part of FENLAND District. Click here for graphs and data of how FENLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Benwick itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Benwick, in Fenland and Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2179
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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