:DilUC10RY .] CAMBRIDGESHIRE. G1RTON, 99 r,692, including the hamlet of WoonBURY, one mile west. A. Ennals, St. Neots, clerk to the board; Jonathan Hodge, 'fETWORTH is I~ mile north-west. Gamlingay, attendance officer Parish Clerk, 'Villiam Arnold. Board Schools, with residence for master & mistress, PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- erected in r877 at a cost of about £3,ooo, for 360 children; Samuel Sarll, postmaster. Letters arrive from Sandy at average attendance, 200; James Fowler, master ; Miss 6.45 a. m. ; letters are also delivered to callers only at Eleanor Heywood, mistress; Miss Jess1e Barrett, infants' 10.30 a.. m.; box closes at 5 & 7-5 p.m mistress School Board of 5 members was formed Dec. 31, 1875; J. Railway Station, John Widdowson, station master PRIVATH RESIDENTS. , Dew Samuel, farmer Pledger Arthur, butcher .Astell Mrs. Woodbury hall Dew Ulysses, Hardwicke Arms P.H. & Plowman George Sneeds, brick & tile Crouch Rev. Williarn B.A. Vicarage farmer works, Great Heath Dennis Mrs. Merton grange Dew Waiter, poor rate collector PowellFras.Tompkins,veterinary surgn Dew Mrs. Moses Garrott Stcphen, wheelwright Ransford Joseph, Royal Oak P.H Gilbert Miss Gear Joseph, blacksmith Roberts Charles, Chequers P.H Gray Mrs Gilbert Alfred, beer retailer Rowell James, grocer Gregson Col. James Dalton J.P. Old Gilbert John, baker & corn merchant Russell Jonathan, shopkeeper Woodbury . Gladwin Edward, manager, Bellevue Rutley Charles, brick manufacturer,see Lamb Mrs Brick Works Coates & Rutley Milledge Rev. Henry [Baptist] ' Gray John, farmer Sarll John, Cock P.H. tailor & shopkpr Oldaker Rev. Hy. Harold B.A. [curate] Hall John, farmer Sarll Samuel, draper, grocer, & agent Flowman Geo. Sneeds, Mount Pleasant Hawkins William, saddler for W. & .A. Gilbey, wine & spirit Sarll Joseph Hewitt Charles, Dolphin P.H merchants, Post office Smith Henry James, Merton grange Hill William, farmer · Stratton Saml. plumber, painter & glazr Tebbutt David Henry Hills William, beer retailer, The Heath Titmus John, shopkeeper Trimmer Henry Beesley M.D Ilodge Brothers, market garden~rs Trimmer Henry lleesley l\LD. surgeon COMMERCIAL. Howe Josiah, boot & shoe maker & medical officer & public vaccinator, Alston Samuel, farm bailiff to William Hughes Jesse, beer retailer Gamlingay district, Caxton & Ar- Harvey Astell esq Jakes William, grocer & draper rington union ; & public vaceinator, Bean Frederick, grocer & draper Jiggle Thomas, boot & shoe maker Tetworth & Waresley districts, St. Briton Joseph, market gardener Knibbs Isaac, Rose & Crown P.H Neots union Claydon George, head gardener to Larkins James, beer retailer Turrell James, farmer William Harvey Astell esq Larkins Jn. hurdle maker, The Heath Wale Charles, builder Coates & Rutley, brick manufacturers Lewis Mary (Mrs..), blacksmith Watson Brothers, bakers Cole George, beer retailer Meeks Chas. beer ret. Gamlingay sinks Watson Alfred, coal, soot & manure Collins Charles, White Swan P.H Meeks Hannah (Mrs.), White Horse P.H. merchant, Station Coote & Warren, coal merchants Gamlingay sinks Webster Robm·t, grocer, & draper Cox & Sarll, grocers & drapers Meeks Henry,shopkpr. Gamlingay sinks Whitmore Peter, farmer Cox Thomas, undertaker N aylor Gcorge, market gardener Whittct Thomas, Sultan P.H Cross David, market gardenet Noble Martha ()Iiss ), milliner Wilson Charles, beer retailer Darlow Willia~ market gardener, Norman Zachariah, beer retailer Woodham Samuel, farmer The Heath Peck Charles, beer retailer, The Heath Wright Charles, beer retailer Dew Edgar, miller (wind) Peck Ebenezer, pig dealer, The Heath Wright George, wheelwright Dew Henry, farmer Peek James, shopkeeper Wright Thomas, wheelwright
Pew John, farmer 1 Peters Brothers, bricklayers Wright William, market gardener • GIRTON is a parish and village, on a feeder of the Ouse, office is at Histon & nearest telegraph office at Cam close to the road from Cambridge to Huntingdon, 3 miles bridge north-west from Cambridge, and 2~ south-west from Histon Endowed School, built in 1845 & endowed by Mrs. Iloublon station on the St. Ives and Cambridge line of the Great with £3o yearly derived from money invested in Eastern railway, in the Western division of the county, funds, for 120 children ; average attendance, 97 ; Bertie hundred of N orthstow, union of Chesterton, petty sessional Charles Perry, master ; Miss Emma Bishop, infants'' division and county court district of Cambridge, rural mistress; Miss F. Collingwood, assistan~ deanery of Chesterton and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. Girtou College, first opened at Hitchin in IH6g and removed. The church of St. Andrew is a building of rubble and stone, to its present buildings in October, 1873, is designed to hold, originally in the Early Decorated style, but now chiefiy in relation to girls' schools and home t.eaching, a position Perpendicular, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, tran analogous to that occupied by the universities towards the sept, south porch and an embattled western tower contain public schools for boys: the students' fees are fixed on such ing a clock and 4 bells : there are piscinffi in the chancel a scale as to secure that the institution shall he self-support- and south aisle: the south porch has a parvise of later date ing, and the memorandum of association contains the follow and a turret with door at the south-west angle: the tower ing clauses :-The objects for which the association is is a heavy structure carried on three arches with a poly established are, to erect, maintain and conduct a college for gonal tower reaching half way up on the southern face: the higher education of women, to take such steps as from there are brasses in the church to former rectors, with time to time may be thought most expedient and effectual to effigies in cope and almuce, dated respectively 1487 and obtain for the students admission to the examination for and 1492: the church was restored in 1853• and affQrds 300 degrees of the University of Cambridge, and generally to sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates from place the college. in connection with that university ; " the the year 1629 ; marriages, 1630. The living is a rectory; buildings, of plain red brick, are on the Huntingdon road, average tithe rent-charge £350, net yearly value [312, about I~ miles from Cambridge, and were erected by volun with residence, and including 16 acres of glebe, in the gift of tary contributi-ons~ the charge for board, lodging and instruc- the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1866 by the Rev. tion is £35 per term; 'there are three terms in the year, Robert Spedding Wilson M.A. of Erasenose College, Oxford, each of about eight weeks : the college course eKtends over and late fellow and tutor of that college. Here is also a three years. By a grace of the Senate of the University of Baptist chapel. The church and town Lands produce £38 Ca.mbridge I88I, female students of this or any similar in yearly for fuel and the relief of the .village poor. St. John's stitution within the precincts of the university, who have College, Cambridge ; Richard Archer Houblon esq. D.L •• fulfilled the condit~ons and standing which members of the J.P. of The Gottage; William Peed esq. of Histon Hall; the university are requested to fulfil, may be admitted to the trustees of the late Major King, those of .the late Elliott Previous Examination and the Tripos Examinations 1 in the_ Smith esq. D.L., J.P. of Cambridge, and Mr. Charles course of the year ending June, :r8g1, there were xoo Sanderson are the principal landowners. The soil is princi students in residence 1 mistress, Miss Welsh ; vice-mistress, pally heavy : the subsoil, clay, producing excellent crops of Miss Florence Ward ; librarian, Miss Con stance J ones ; hon. all descriptions of grain. The area is 1,637 acres ; rateable bursar, Miss Emily Davies; lecturers-divinity, Rev. C. E. value, £3,494:; the population in 1881 was 484. Graves M.A, ~ classics, J. P ~ Postgate M.A. Rev. A. H. Cooke Sexton, John Chapmaxi. M.A. Rev. J. H. Moulton H.A. ; mathematics, C. Graham M.A. J. M. Dodda M.A.: chemistry, G. D. Liveing H.A., PosT OFFICE.~Frank Heard, sub-postmaster. Letters li'.R.s.; resident lecturers, classics, Miss Jex-Blake and Miss received by post through Cambridge at 7 & 12 a. m. Daniel; mathematics, Miss Meyer; natural science, vacant; & dispatched at 2 & 7 p.m. The nearest money order moral science, Miss C. Jones ' Cranfield James J Geaps John I Jex-Blake Miss, Girt.on oollege Davies Miss, Girton college Haskoll Misses, The Cottage Jones Miss C. Girton college . C. N. & S. 7*