Description
Madingley, a parish in Cambridgeshire, adjacent to the Via Devana, 5 miles WNW of Cambridge railway station. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Cambridge. Acreage, 1768; population, 215. Madingley Hall, a large Tudor mansion standing in a park of 200 acres, is the seat of the Hunell family, and was occupied by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales during the time he was a student at Cambridge University. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £132 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church, which was restored in 1885, is a small building of stone chiefly in the Early Decorated style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
