HADDENHAM: PARISH. 499 adjacent parishes of Haddenham, Wilburton, Stretham, St. Mary's, Ely, ·witch· ford, Wentworth, and Thetford, have a right of common on the remainder. HADDENHAM: PARISH. The boundaries of this extensive parish are formed principally by the river Ouse, Ol" the Old west river, which divides the isle from Cambridgeshire on the south, Huntingdonshire on the west, Sutton and Wentworth on the north, and Wilbur­ ton and Grunty fen on the east. It contains 9,530 acres; its population in 1801, was 1090; in 1831, 1929: and in 1841, 2103 souls, including 143 persons attending the village feast. The amount of assessed property is£ 13,236. 'J.'he parish is divided into two districts, Haddenham-end and Linden-end, and it has two hamlets, Hill·row and Aldreth. The land consisting of field and fen, is of a very superior quality, and the principal proprietors of the soil are, the Earl of Hardwicke, Richard Brown, "Esq., and vVilliam Martin, Esq. Manors. The principal manor, in ancient times was that of Linden, wl1ich with its appendages of Haddenhnm and Hill, was purchased for the abbot and convent of Ely, by Ethelwold, bishop of Winchester, and abbot Brithnoth. At tl1e distribution of the manors between the bishop nud monks, when the convent was raised to the dignity of a cathedral, (see page 447) this manor was assigned to the bishop, and continued attached to the see till alienated by bishop Helon, in 1600. In 1632 it belonged to the earl of Suffolk, and it was afterwards in the family of March, who had been possessed of another manor here, called Graies, as early as the year 1614. By tl1e marriage of one of their descendants, with the heiress of the Rowlands, they became possessed also of the manor of Hinton, in thi!l parish, and the three manors passed by indenture of bargain and sale in 1766, to the Earl of Hardwicke, with whose descendant (the p1·esent earl) it still continues. A small manor here called.Chewell's, was given by bishop Montacute in 1344; to St. Peter's college, Cambridge, under which it is now held on lea10e. The Mano1' House was built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by Mr_ Wren, and acquired the name of the Wren'$ nest: it was the seat of sev.eral of its suc­ cessive owners, but has been pulled down many years, excepting the pol'cb in which the courts for the manor are opened. Tke Village of Haddenltam, wl1ich is large nnd interesting, is seated on an emi­ nence about 6 miles S.W. from Ely,nnd 15 N.from Cambridge. When the40knights who had been lodged in the abbey of Ely with the monks, by order of William tle Conqueror, (both to observe the motions of the people of the Isle of Ely, a place at that time much averse to his government, and also at the same time to provide for 40 of his Norman followers, without charge to himself,) were sent for at the end of five years to return to Normandy, against Robert, the son ofthe Conqueror, who .