Great Gidding, Huntingdonshire

Description
Gidding, Great, a village and a parish in Huntingdonshire, on Alconbury brook, adjacent to Northamptonshire, 6 miles SW by S of Stilton, and 5^ SW of Holrne station on the G.N.R., with a post office under Peterboro'; money order and telegraph office, Sawtry. Acreage, 2348; population, 445. The manor belonged formerly to the Eugaines and to the Earls of Rockingham, and belongs now to G. C. Wont-worth Fitzwilliam, Esq., J.P. The living is a vicarage, consolidated in 1875 with that of Little Gidding; joint net yearly value, £230 with residence. The church, a building in the Early English style, was restored in 1870. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and there is a school supported by the Fitzwilliam family. In the village are the kennels of the Fitzwilliam Hunt.