Milton Cambridgeshire Family History Guide
Milton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1705
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MILTON, a village and a parish in Chesterton district, Cambridge. The village stands near the river Cam and the Cambridge and Ely railway, 1½ mile N by E of Cambridge Junction r. station, and 3½ NNE of Cambridge; and has a post office under Cambridge.
The parish comprises 1,378 acres. Real property, £4,367. Pop., 494. Houses, 113. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £550. Patron, King’s College, Cambridge. The church is decorated English, in good condition; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains a brass of Justice Coke, of the year 1553, and several monuments to the Knight family, one of them by Flaxman another by Chantrey.
There are a national school and charities £64.
Cole the antiquary, who left 100 volumes of manuscripts to the British museum, was a resident.
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: Chesterton
- Poor Law Union: Chesterton
- Hundred: Northstow
- Province: Canterbury