CHESTERTON, a village, a parish, a district, and a hundred in Cambridgeshire. The village stands on the river Cam, adjacent to the Eastern Counties railway, 1 mile NNE of Cambridge; includes numerous new houses, inhabited by persons engaged in business in Cambridge; and has a post-office under Cambridge. The parish comprises 2,729 acres; and contains Cambridge county jail, a workhouse, and remains of Cambridge castle, a seat of the priors of Barnwell, and the Roman camp of Arbury. Real property, £10,280. Pop., 2,986. Houses, 644. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to the priory of Barnwell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £206. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is decorated English. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, and charities £81.
The district comprehends the sub – district of Fulbourn, containing the parishes of Chesterton, Milton, Fen-Ditton, Horningsea, Teversham, Stow-cum-Quy, Little Wilbraham, Great Wilbraham, Cherry-Hinton, and Fulbourn-All Saints, and St. Vigors; the sub-district of Willingham, containing the parishes of Willingham, Childerley, Dry-Drayton, Girton, Impington, Histon, Oakington, Long-Stanton-St. Michael, Long-Stanton-All Saints, Rampton, Cottenham, Landbeach, and Water-beach; and the sub-district of Great Shelford, containing the parishes of Great Shelford, Little Shelford, Stapleford, Hauxton, Newton, Harston, Haslingfield, Harleton, Comberton, Barton, Madingley, Coton, Grantchester, and Trumpington. Acres, 76,728. Poor-rates in 1862, £13,600. Pop. in 1841, 21,599; in 1861, 25,083. Houses, 5,464. Marriages in I860-, 182; births, 831,—of which 37 were illegitimate; deaths, 457,—of which 165 were at ages under 5 years, and 24 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,921; births, 8,428; deaths, 5,027. The places of worship in 1851 were 38 of the Church of England, with 7,261 sittings; 3 of Independents, with 820 s.; 22 of Baptists, with 4,506 s.; 7 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 1,140 s.; 2 of Primitive Methodists, with 194 s.; and 2 undefined, with 190 s. The schools were 46 public day schools, with 2,833 scholars; 53 private day schools, with 1,153 s.; 45 Sunday schools, with 3,594 s.; and 4 evening schools for adults, with 66 s.—The hundred contains only five parishes and part of another. Acres, 15,847. Pop., 6,970. Houses, 1,509.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
