Great Shelford Cambridgeshire Family History Guide
Great Shelford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1557
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SHELFORD (Great), a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Chesterton district, Cambridge. The village stands adjacent to the London and Cambridge railway, near the Gogmagog hills, 4 miles S by E of Cambridge; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Cambridge.
The parish comprises 1,900 acres. Real property, £4,320. Pop., 1,006. Houses, 221. The chief manor belongs to Caius College, Cambridge; and two smaller manors belong to St. John’s College and E. H. De Freville, Esq.
There are a brewery, a large flour-mill, and nine wells supplying Cambridge with water.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £102. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church is later English, and has a modern tower.
There are a Baptist chapel of 1856, a national school, a British school, and charities £47.
The sub-district contains 14 parishes. Acres, 21,580. Pop., 7,157. Houses, 1,539.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Cambridgeshire
- Civil Registration District: Chesterton
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Ely (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Ely
- Rural Deanery: Barton
- Poor Law Union: Chesterton
- Hundred: Thriplow
- Province: Canterbury