Impington, Cambridgeshire

Description
Impington, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands 1 mile ESE from Histon station on the G.E.R., and 2 1/2 miles N from Cambridge, and was once a market-town. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Cambridge. The parish comprises 1668 acres; population, 418. A handsome mansion here called Impington Hall, belonged to the Pepys family, is frequently mentioned in Pepys' diary, and passed by marriage to the family of Coffin. A woman of this parish was enveloped in a snow-drift in 1799, remained in it nearly eight days and nights, and was taken out alive, and a monument recording the event now stands on the spot. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value,, £138. The church is a small building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consists of nave, aisle, and chance, with porch and tower, and has a brass of the Burgoynes of 1500.