Burwell, Cambridgeshire Family History Guide
Burwell is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire, created in 1600-1700s from Burwell St Andrew Ancient Parish and Burwell St Mary Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Reach.
Alternative names: Burwell St Andrew, Burwell St Mary
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1560
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1567
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Wood Ditton
- Fordham
- Exning, Suffolk
- Stetchworth
- Swaffham Prior
- Wicken
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BURWELL, a village and a parish in Newmarket district, Cambridge. The village stands 4 miles ESE of the river Cam, and the same distance NW of Newmarket r. station; consists chiefly of one irregular street; has a post-office under Cambridge; and was once a market-town.
Traces of a castle are here, built before the Conquest, and besieged in the war between Stephen and the Empress Matilda.
Seventy-eight persons were accidentally burnt to death in a barn here in 1727.
The parish includes also part of the hamlet of Reach. Acres, 7,232. Real property, £15,227; of which £1,142 are in quarries. Pop., 1,987. Houses, 403. About one half of the land is fen.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £335. Patron, the University of Cambridge. The church is fine decorated English; was partly restored in 1861; and has a pinnacled tower.
There are a mission church of 1863, Independent, Baptist, and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school, two national schools, a British school, and charities £152.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Cemeteries
St. Mary’s, Burwell, monumental inscriptions Author: Cambridgeshire Family History Society
Census
Census returns for Burwell, 1841-1891
Church Records
Parish registers, 1562-1860 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Burwell (Cambridgeshire)
Parish registers, 1798-1846 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Burwell (Cambridgeshire)
Computer printout of Burwell, Cambs., Eng
Computer printout of Burwell, High Town Independent, Cambs., Eng
Court Records
History
Burwell : a stroll through history Author: Richardson, Heather M.
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Cambridgeshire
- Civil Registration District: Newmarket
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury
- Diocese: Post-1836 – Ely, Pre-1837 – Norwich
- Rural Deanery: Fordham
- Poor Law Union: Newmarket
- Hundred: Staploe
- Province: Canterbury