Stetchworth, Cambridgeshire

Description
Stetchworth, a parish, with a village, in Cambridgeshire, 1 1/4 mile E of Dullingham station on the Cambridge and Newmarket section of the G.E.R., and 3 1/2 miles S of Newmarket. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newmarket Acreage, 2891; population, 722. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ellesmere, who is principal landowner. Stetchworth House is a chief residence, standing in a park of 40 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £224 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Ellesmere. The church consists of chancel (Norman and Early English), nave and aisles (Late Perpendicular), and tower with five bells. The nave and aisles have been restored, and the chancel was restored in 1895. The church contains some good stained windows and a fine monument of white and black marble erected in 1674 in memory of Richard, son of Lord Gorges, interred (together with his father and mother) in a vault beneath.