Description
Landwade, a parish in Cambridgeshire, 4 miles N by W of Newmarket station on the G.E.R. Post town, Newmarket; money order and telegraph office, Fordham. Acreage, 127; population, 31. The manor belonged, in the time of Edward III., to the Hastings family, and passed to the Cottons. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Ex-ning, in the diocese of Ely. The church, which is a private chapel of the Cotton family, is an ancient building; consists of nave, transepts, and chancel, with a low tower, and contains some very old monuments of the Cottons.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
