Description
Cockayne-Hatley or Hatley-Port, a village and a parish in Beds, adjacent to the boundary with Cambridgeshire, 3 miles E of Potton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 6 1/2 NE of Biggleswade. Post town, Potton; money order and telegraph office, Potton. Acreage, 1175; population of the civil parish, 104; of the ecclesiastical, 113. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £211 with residence. The church, an ancient building of rubble and sandstone in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles, contains some very beautiful wood carving, and was restored in 1889.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
