Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire Family History Guide
Swaffham Prior is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire, created in 1667 from Swaffham Prior St Mary Ancient Parish and Swaffham Prior St Cyriac and St Jolitta Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Reach.
Alternative names:
- St Cyriac
- St Mary
- Swaffham Prior St Cyriac and Swaffham Prior St Jolitta
- Swaffham Prior St Mary
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SWAFFHAM-PRIOR, a village and a parish in Newmarket district, Cambridge. The village stands 5½ miles W of Newmarket r. station; was once a market-town: and has a post-office under Cambridge. The parish contains also the ancient hamlet of Reach; was originally two parishes, St. Mary, and St. Cyriac; and comprises 5,297 acres. Real property, £8,432. Pop., 1,329. Houses, 312. The property is subdivided. S. House is the seat of P. Allix, Esq. The living is a double vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £500. Patron, alternately the Bishop of Ely and the Dean and Chapter. St. Mary’s church is a picturesque ruin; St. Cyriac’s church has been rebuilt; and both stand in one church-yard. There are two dissenting chapels, an endowed school with £30 a year, alms houses, and other charities.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Cemeteries
Census
Census returns for Swaffham Prior, 1841-1891
Church Records
Court records
Land and property
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Public records, 1627-1850 Author: Swaffham-Prior (Cambridgeshire)
Taxation
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 Bishop of Ely (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Ely
- Rural Deanery: Camps
- Poor Law Union: Newmarket
- Hundred: Staine
- Province: Canterbury