Description
Ashley-cum-Silverley, a parish in Cambridgeshire, on the verge of the county, at Ashley Gap, 4 miles ESE of Newmarket railway station. It has a post office, of the name of Ashley, under Newmarket; money order and telegraph office, Cheveley. Acreage, 2225; population, 455. The living is a rectory and a vicarage£ Ashley rectory, Silverley vicarage£in the diocese of Ely. Patron, Lord North. The church was built in 1845.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
