Description
Gidding, Little, a village and a parish in Huntingdonshire, on Alconbury' brook, 7 miles SSW of Stilton, and 7 SW of Holrne station on the G.N.R. Post town, Peterboro'; money order and telegraph office, Sawtry. Acreage, 724; population, 48. A Protestant nunnery was founded here in 1625 by Nicholas Ferrars; was visited in 1633 and 1646 by Charles I., and was soon afterwards dissolved. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely, consolidated with that of Great Gidding; joint net yearly value, £230 with residence. The church is good and partly modern, and contains monuments of the Ferrars.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
