Great Abington, Cambridgeshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1929.

GREAT ABINGTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1929.

"GREAT ABINGTON is a parish and village, on the south bank of the river Granta and on the main road from Cambridge to Linton and Haverhill, 1 mile east from Pampisford station on a branch of the London and North Eastern railway from Cambridge to Haverhill, 2¾ north-west from Linton, 8 north from Saffron Walden and 8 south-east from Cambridge, in the hundred of Chilford, union and petty sessional division of Linton, county court district of Saffron Walden, rural deanery of Camps and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely.

The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient edifice of flint and rubble, chiefly in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, east porch and a south tower containing 2 bells: on the north side of the chancel is a monument with recumbent effigy in alabaster to Sir William Halton kt. of the Middle Temple, ob. 20th November, 1639: the church was repaired in 1895, at a cost of £500, and the south aisle in 1900, at a cost of £200: the church affords 200 sittings.

The register dates from the year 1664. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £114, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late John James Emerson esq. who are impropriators of the rectorial tithes, and held since 1906 by the Rev. Frederic Benjamin Brandon Whittingham T.D., M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford, and A.K.C. who is also vicar of Little Abington, where he resides.

The institute was erected in 1909 by the late John James Emerson esq. and is used for public meetings, clubs, entertainments &c.;

Abington Hall, the residence of James John Emerson esq. J.P. is a handsome mansion, prettily seated in a well-timbered park of about 100 acres, through which flows the river Granta. James John Emerson esq. J.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner.

The soil is chiefly light, but certain parts are heavy; subsoil, chalk and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley.

The area is 1,558 acres; the population in 1921 was 219."