DIRECTOIY ,] CAMBRIDGESHIRE. :SOBSBSE4TE, 107 internally, re-seated and new roofed in 1874-5· under the turnips, market g'l.rden pronuce and great quantities of direction of the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A. and the nave fruit, fro~ which Cambridge, London and other markets and aisles by G. F. Bodley esq. A.R.A .• F.S.A.: there are soo derive large supplies. The area is 2,300 acres~ rateable sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates from value, £4,460; the population in r88 1 was g6g, the year 1685 ; marriages, 1655· The living comprises the Parish Clerk, John Crane. consolidated discharged vicarages of St. Andrew and St. PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-John Etheldreda, gross yearly value £350, derived from 218 acres Tolliday, receiver. Letters arrive by mail cart from of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since 1865 Cambridge at 7 & II a.m.; dispatched. at 1.25 & 7 p.m. by the Rev, Charles White Underwood M.A. of St. John's The nearest telegraph office is at Cottenham College, Cambridge, rural dean of Chesterton and honorary canon of Ely. Here are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Endowed School (boys, girls & infants), erected in 1872 for William Peed esq. of Histon Hall, is lord of the manors of 250 children; average attendance, 82, & infants, 43, & Histon St. Andrew and Histon SL. Etheldreda. The prin­ endowed with £30 yearly from an estate in the parish o; cipal landed proprietors are William Peed esq. Smith Oakington1 in this county; John S. Churchill, master & Howlett Rowley esq. Messrs. Stephen al\d Thomas Chiver!! organist ; Miss Edith Horspool, mistress ; attendance officer', \Villiam Haird, Cottenham and Richard Archer Houblon esq. D.L. 1 J.P. of Bartlow, Linton. The land produces excellent crops of grain and Railway Stil.tion, Clmrles Paige, station master

Angier The Misses marmalade; Brussels, r888, silver MunceyThos.Rose&Crown P.H.&carpn~r Barnes Rev. Charles Albert [curate] medal,jams; London,r888,certificate Xorman Charlotte, grocer Chapman Mrs of merit,jams; Windsor (Royal show), Osboru Thomas, farmer Childs Miss, Brook house 188g, first prize; London, r8go, cer· Pap worth Frederick George,blacksmith Chivers Stephen tifi.ca te of Jllerit, jams & bottled fruits ; Pap worth Frederick Wm. market g~rdnr Chivers Stephen, jun Westminster, r8go, bronze medal, Papworth Harry, Boot inn Chivers William jams & bottled fruits: Leeds, 18go, Papworth Philip, beer retailer Peed William, Histon hall gold medal, jams & bottled fruits; Papworth Robert, wheelwright Philpot Rev. Thoma~ [BaptistJ Leeds, 18go,silver medal, table jellies; Pap worth Sarah (:.\Iiss), Bell P.H Rowley Smith Howlett Sheffield, r8g1, gold medal, table Peck James, markl!t gardener Underwood Rev. Charles White l\f.A. jellies; Victoria works Pegg John, market gardener [vicar, rural dean & hon. canon of Chivers Alfred, market gardener Prime John, gardener & tlodst Ely], Vicarage ChristmasMerrington, buildr.& contrctr Saunders William, relieving officer for COMMERCIAL, Clarke Wilson, shoe mak~r Fulbourn district, Chesterton union BetsonEdwardWil!iam,market gardener Coe Frederick, market gardener Smith Alfred, basket maker Burkett Edward James, farmer Ellis Naomi (Mrs.), market gardener Stead Alfred, farmer Burkett Watson, market gardeur.&florist Franks Robert, market gardener & Stead Edward John, market gardener Car!ey Herbert, grocer potato salesman Stead Thomas, market gardener Carter Bery, market gardener Gawthrop John, Barley Mow P.H Symonds Peter, cattle dealer & farmer Carter Alfred, Railway Vue P.H Histonl:'hilo-Union (Frederick Fisk, sec) Symonds Alien, cattle dealer Chapman Thomas, beer retailer Kimpton David & Sons, Green Hill P.H, Todd Edward, carpenter Charles John, market gardener bakers & corn dealers Todd James, farmer Chivers Stephen & Sons, pro- Lee John, Red Lion P.II Tolliday .John, blacksmith, Post office prietors of the first fruit growers' Lucas Smith, market gardener Willson Charles, builder & contractor jam factory established in England. Moore Benjamin, market gardener Youngman John Chivers, gardener Awards at Exhibitions: Saltaire, 1887, MooreJames, shopkeeper&rate collector I Youngman ,John. William, shopkeeper gold medal for jams & home made •

HORNINGSEA (or HORNINGSEY) is a parish and vil- yearly value from patrom £2oo, with residence, in tlie gift lage on the east bank of the river Cam, 3! miles north-north- of St. John's Col!P-ge, Cambridge, and held since !888 by­ east from Cambridge and 2 south from Waterbeach station the Rev. Herbert Henr~ Baker .Ayles M. A. of that college. on the Cambridge and Ely branch of the Great E"lstern Coprolites are dug here to a considerable extent, part by M;r. railway, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of W. Ban yard and part by' a local committee out of the common Flendish, Bottisham petty sessional division, union of fen for t.he benefit of the parishes of Horningsey, Ditton and Chesterton, Cambridge county court district, rttra.I deanery Quy. The parish enjoys one of the fens in Bottishtim of Cambridge and arch deaconry and diocese of Ely. Across jointly with the inhabitants of that parish; as well as the Cam, and joining this parish t'O that of Waterbeach, is a another fen in Quy and Homingsea. The poor's land pro­ bridge, built by a company formed for the purpose about duces £6 yearly. J6hn Haviland esq. NorthampWn, who is 1872, and providing a means of communication with the lord of the manor, Messrs. Bailey & Co., King's and St'.. Waterbeach railway station. The. church of St_ Peter is a. John's Colleges, Major Henry Crawley Norris J.P., D. I'.., o~ building of stone in the Transition Norman and later styles, Swalcliffe Park, Oxon, and .Messrs. William Potterton Fison consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western and Samuel Fison and Jonathan William Fison are the prin­ tower containing 5 bells , the chancel date!! from about 1220 1 cipal landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, gault. Th~ the north arcade of the nave is Decorated, iind the south, chief crops are wheat, barley, ltnd oats. The area is '1:,580 Transition Norman; some or f,he windows are of the Late acres ;tateablevalue,£2,568; the population in l881 was 409. Decorated period, and have beautiful tracery: the east end CLAY HrTHE is in this parish. of the south aisle, 'l.ncicntly a chantry, retains a large niche: Parish Clerk, William Banyard. the south porch has grotesque sculptures at the eaves: the Deputy Clerk, James Gotobed. r church was thoroughly rest()red in 1865, at a cost of over Letters through Cambridge arl)ive at 8 a. m.; Waterbeach [, t,ooo, the chancel at the expense of St. John's College, and is the nearest money order & telBt,OTaph office. W ,U.J. the nave by subscriptions. from I_Jarishioners and friends : LETTE~ Box cleared at 6. 15 p. m , ) in 18go the tower and othet portions of the fabric Wdre National School, erected in 1841 & enlarged in ;.r:871. for repaired at a cost of £4oo : there are 250 sittings. The :130. children; average attendance, 6~; Miss Carol~p register dates from the year 1..628. The living is a vicarage, Smith, mistress ; Miss Beldam, infants' rojstrl;lSS AylesRev.Herbertiicnryllakent.A. vicar Fison Samuel, farmer & landowner Robinson William, jun. shoe maker 1 • Belson Thomas Bowyer Gibson Henry, beer retailer&blacksmiLh Sargent Ernest. shopkeeper Fison William Potterton Hayles Isaac, shoe maker Sargent Morris, carpenter 1 Saunders Charles Leeds Kimpton William, wheelwright Sargent Uriah, carpenter, & overseer COMMERCIAL. Newman James, beer retailer for Horningosea _ ) B:myard Thomas, commission agent Newton Edward, farm bailiff for Fredk. Saunders I. E. agricultural seed grower Banyard William, farmer Bailey esq. Eye Hall farm & farmer, Clay Hithe ... Fison John Potterton, market gardener l,tobinson William. market gardener Watts William, shopkeeper HORSEHEATH is a village and parish, pleasantly south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 llituated on the Cambridge old road, 3 miles north-east bells : in the chancel is a brass supposed to commemorate from Bartlow, 4 east from the Linton station of the Cam- Sir John de Argentine, ob. 138:~; the canopy aod inscriptiou bridge and Sudbury li~e of the Great Eastern railway, 4 are lost: oq the south side of the chancel are monuments west from Ilaverhill and 14 south-east from Cambridge, in with effigies to Sir Giles Alington knt. masl.6r of th!l

the EB.Stern division of the county, hundred of Chilford, Ordnance, temp. Henry VIII. ob. 1586, and his 1\)on Gyles. petty sessional division and union of Linton9 county court both clad in armour ; and on the north side a monument district qf Haver hill, rural deanery of Camps, second with effigies to Sir Giles Alington, ob. J613, hii wife Dorothy, division, and a.rchdeaconry and diocese of Ely. The church and their ten children, figures of whom surround the manu­ of A4 Saints is an ancient edifice of flint and rubble, in the [ ment; there is also a. ~blet. to one_of the Broml~ys, Baroilll Gothic Btyle of the 15th century, consisting of chancel, nave, .Montfort of Horseheath, a t1tle wlucl;l became extlll{!t on th!l