Description
Catworth, Great, a parish in Huntingdonshire, 3 3/4 miles N by W of Kimbolton, 1 1/4 NW from Kimbolton station on the M.R, and 7 ESE of Thrapston. It has a post office of the name of Catworth under Huntingdon; telegraph office, Kimbolton. Acreage, 3094; population of the civil parish, 547 ; of the ecclesiastical, 524. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely ; net yearly value, £365. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and some small charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
