Description
Witcham, a parish in Cambridgeshire, 6 miles W by N of Ely, and 2 fiom Sutton station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Ely; money order and telegraph office, Sutton. Acreage, 2605; population of the civil parish, 322; of the ecclesiastical, 393. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £200 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ely. The church is a structure of stone and brick in the Early English style, containing a Norman font. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
