DIRECTORY.] CAMBRIDGESHIRE. PRICKWilLOW. 201 provisions of the "Local Government Act, I888" (SI and John to a family of that name, from whom it passed 52 Vict. c. 41), it became, from Sept. 30, 1895• wholly in successively to the families of Papworth and Mallory, Cambridgeshire. and is now the property of Arthur H. B. Sperling esq. The .church of St. John the Baptist, built on the site of who is the sole landowner. The soil is heavy clay; sub­ a more ancient structure, is an edifice of stone, consisting soil, blue gault. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley of chancel, nave, north porch and an em-battled western and beans. The area is 1,298 acres; rateable value, tower containing a clock and 2 bells: the tower was rebuilt £1,037; the population in I9II was 123. in 1848 and the chancel and nave in 1854, in the Decorated By Local Government Board Order No. 47,289, which style, by the Rev. H. J. Sperling, then rector: the east came into operation Oct. 8th, 1904, part of Papwortb window is stained, and the nave contains four memorial St. Agnes was transferred to Papworth Everard. windows to the Sperling family: there are 120 sittings. Parish Clerk, John Martin. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a Letters received through Cambridge arrive at 8.30 a.m. rectory, net yearly value £250, with residence and in- & 2.30 p.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at Io.so a.m. & eluding 79 acres of glebe, in the gift of Arthur H. B. 6.20 p.m. week days only. The nearest money order Sperling esq. and held since 1892 by the Rev. Daniel & telegraph office is at Papworth Everard. Radford, of the University of London. The manor of Public Elementary School (mixed), erected about 1830, Russells, in this parish, belonged in the reign of King for so children;. Mrs. Kate Hallett, mistress Radford Rev. Daniel, Rectory Kimpton William, farmer Miller Robert, farmer, Manor farm Sperling Arthur H. B. Lattenbury Mailer William Bryce & William, hill (postal address, St.Ives,Hunts) farmers, Hill farm PARSON DROVE is a chapelry in Leverington civil residence and including 143 acres of glebe, in the gift parish, 2! miles north from Murrow station on the of the Bishop of Ely, and held since 1905 by the 'Rev. Great Northern and Great Eastern joint railway from William Henry Alien M.A. of Corpus Christi College, March to Doncaster, and the Peterborough to Sutton Cambridge. The parish shares one-third of the interest Bridge branch of the Midland and Great Northern joint of £go, left by John Bend in 1593, the remaining two­ railway and 6 south-west from Wisbech, in the Northern thirds being assigned to Wisbech St. Mary. There is division of the county, hundred of Wisbech, Wisbech no manor. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, clay and· silt. union, p-etty sessional division and county court dis- The chief crops are wheat, oats, potatoes, beans and trict and in the rural deanery and archdeaconry of fruit. The area is 4,078 acres of land and 18 of water; Wisbech and diocese of Ely. The ecclesiastical parish rateable value, £9,970; the population in 1911 was; of was formed in 187o from the civil parish of Levering- the civil parish 786, and of the ecclesiastical parish 191. ton. The church of St. John the Baptist is an edifice Part of the hamlet of Murrow is in Parson Drove parish. of stone and brick in the Early English style, con- Post, M. 0. & T. Office. John William Cooper, sub- sisting of nave, aisles, north and south porches, and postmaster. Letters arrive through Wisbech ·at 5-15 an embattled western tower containing 5 bells: in 189S & II-35 a.m.; dispatched at 7.50 p.m. week days only the roof of the church was raised and restored: there Wall Letter Box, Church, cleared at 8.20 p.m. week days are 400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1657. only The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £349• with , The children of this parish attend the school at Southea - - . (For remainder of names in Parson Coates Alfred, farmer, Co" ling·s frm Plesence Hiromt-. cycle dealer Drove, see Southea-with-Murrow.) Cross Thomas, farmer Plesence Hugh, farmer . Alien Rev. William Henry M.A. Folley Frederick, farmer Plesence Robert, farmer (vicar). Vicarage Gathercole John, farmer Renow Albert, farmer Gillett John David, seed merchant • Scrimshaw Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAL. H:Jlmes George, farmer Searson Charles, farmer Burnham George, farm foreman to Lock ~o\rthur, farmer Taylor William Henry, beer retailer S. M. Egar esq Patrick Robert William, farmer PARS·ON DROVE, see Southea-with-Murrow. PRICKWILLOW is a hamlet and ecclesiastical village and one in Burnt Fen; the larger of the two parish, formed April 5, 1878, from Holy Trinity and former discharges 150 tons a minute into the river St. Mary parishes·, Ely and Littleport, Cambridgeshire, Lark; the sn1aller an av-erage of no tons, and that in and of parts of Lakenheath and Mildenhall, Suffolk, and Burnt Fen about ISO tons. The principal landowners part of Norfolk, A miles north-east from Ely station on are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; the Dean and the Cambridge, Ely and Norwich section of the Great Chapter of Ely; James Little Luddington esq. J.P. Eastern railway and 4 south-east from Littleport, in the Jos-eph William Ludding-ton esq. Lancelot Harold Lud­ Eastern division of the county, pettv sessional division, dington esq. and Mrs. Hanslip Long. The soil is fen; union and county court district of Ely, and in the rural subsoil, clay. The land, which is all fen, is chiefly deanery of Ely, archdeaconry of Wisbech and diocese arable. The population in 1911 was 241, which extends of Ely. This hamlet is on the river Lark, which rises into Suffolk. • at Bury St. Edmunds and here joins the river Quse; Post, Telegraph & Telephonic Express. Deliv~ry Office, the Lark is spanned within the parish by two bridges. The church of St. Peter, built about 1868 on a founda­ Prick willow .-Albert George Edwards, sub~postmaster. tion of wooden piles, is a cruciform edifice of brick Letters· through Ely, received at 7.25 a.m. & 12.30 and :flint in the Early English style, consisting of p.m. ; dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 6.xo p.m. ; no sun­ apsidal chancel, nave with transepts, south porch and day delivery. Ely, 4 miles distant, is the nearest a central turret with short spire containing one bell, money order office formerly in Ely cathedral: the stained east window BURNT FEN, 4! miles distant, is· a hamlet with -a is a memorial to the childr-en of a former vicar of station, called Shippea Hill, on the Ely and Thetford Holy Trinity, Ely: the beautiful font of Italian marble, section of the Great Eastern railway. St. James's also brought from Ely cathedral, and said to have mission church, built in 1891, at a cost of £420, is an been designed by Sir Christopher Wren, is dated 1693 : iron structure, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles__, there are 350 sittings. There being no churchyard and affording 250 sittings. here interments· take place at Ely. The registers of births and marriages date from the year 1878. The Post & Telegraph Office, Burnt Fen.-Gerald H. Ruse, living is a vicarage, net yearly value £,270, with resi­ sub-postmaster. Letters through Mildenhall, Suffolk, dence, in the gift of the vicar of Holy Trinity, Ely, and received at 11 a.m. ; disp'ltched a.t 5.30 p.m. ; no held since x888 by the Rev. Claude Drewitt Kingdon sunday delivery. Littleport is the nearest money B.A. of Keble College, Oxford. There is a Baptist order offi.::e chapel, erected in 1875, and one for Primitive Metho­ Pillar Letter Box.-Drove End, cleared at 10.35 a.m. & dists, erected in 1894. A parish room was erected in 6.1s p.m 1888 by the vicar in the Vicarage garden, and is used Public Elementary Schools. for parish gatherings and classes. An old building, Mi.."'ted, built in the year 1863 by the Dean & Chapter of formerly used as a Wesleyan chapel, and now known Ely & the inhabitants, for 179 children; Frederick as " The People's House," serves for meetings of a Ernest Carpenter, master · ' religious and social character and con.tains a small St. James' (mixed), Mildenhall road, Burnt Fen, erected library. Owing to exhaustive draining, the soil in this in 187o, for 102 children; Arthur Laycock, master district sinks nearly two inches yearly: the schools an:l • vicarage and other houses are built on piles. Three County Constabulary, P.C. George Harry Thaxter !'team pumping engines and many windmillS' are main­ Railway Station, Shippea Hill, G~rald H. Ruse, station tained for draining the fens ; two Pngines are in tbe n1aste:r .