Description
Witchford, a parish, with a village, in Cambridgeshire, 3 miles W by S of Ely station on the G.E.R., with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ely. Acreage, 2156; population of the civil parish, 428; of the ecclesiastical, 452. There is a parish council of five members and a chairman. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £300 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ely. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, and was well restored in 1887. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
