Description
Wilburton, a parish in Cambridgeshire, with a station on the G.E.R., 77 miles from London, and 5 1/2 SW of Ely. It has a post office under Ely; money order and telegraph office, Haddenham. Acreage, 2437; population, 452. The manor, with New Manor House, belongs to the Pell family. The parsonage was once the chief residence of the archdeacons of Ely, and gave entertainment in the time of Archdeacon Alcock to Henry VII. and to his son, afterwards Henry VIII. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Archdeacon of Ely. The church is a building of stone in the Gothic style. There is a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
