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

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

"LITTLE ABINGTON is a parish and village, on the north side of the river Granta and on the road from Cambridge to Linton and Haverhill, about 1¼ miles north-east from the Pampisford station on the Cambridge and Haverhill section of the London and North Eastern railway, 3 north-west from Linton 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 is an ancient structure of flint and rubble, in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north transept, south porch and an embattled western tower containing one bell : the church was thoroughly restored in 1885, when a stained east window was presented by. the late Edmund John Mortlock esq. : there are 120 sittings.

The register dates from about the year 1668. The living is vicarage, net yearly value £119, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late John James Emerson esq. and held since 1906 by the Rev. Frederic Benjamin Brandon Whittington T.D., M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford, and A.K.C. who is also vicar of Great Abington. James John Emerson esq. J.P. is lord the manor and the principal landowner.

The soil mixed; subsoil, chalk and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1,309 acres; population in 1921 was 194."