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"PARSON DROVE is a chapelry in Leverington civil parish, 2½ miles north from Murrow station on the London and North Eastern railway from March to Doncaster, and the Peterborough to Sutton Bridge branch of the Midland and Great Northern joint railway and 6 south-west from Wisbech, in the hundred union, petty sessional division, county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Wisbech and diocese of Ely. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1870 from the civil parish of Leverington."
"The parish shares one-third of the interest of £90, left by John Bend in 1593, the remaining two-thirds being assigned to Wisbech St. Mary. There is no manor. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, clay and silt. The chief crops are wheat, oats, potatoes, beans and fruit. The area is 4,078 acres of land and 18 of water; the population in 1921 was, of the civil parish 959 and of the ecclesiastical parish 200." [Kelly's Directory - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the church 1684-1865 and the graveyard of St. John, 1686-1879, are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office.
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office and also in Wisbech Library. In addition the 1851 Census for Parson Drove is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The Church of St. John the Baptist is an edifice of stone and brick in the Early English style, cosisting of nave, aisles, north and south porches, and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells; in 1895 the roof of the church was raised and restored; there are 400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1657. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £646, with glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Ely, and held since 1918 by the Rev. Arthur Parnham, of Chichester College.
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
Parson Drove, St. John: Records of baptisms 1657-1971, marriages 1657-1971, burials 1657-1943, banns for 1756-1812 and 1958-71 reside in the Wisbech Museum. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1603-39 and 1661-1850 can be found in the Cambridge University Library with some extra entries in the Leverington transcripts. Indexes to transcripts exist in Cambridge Record Office for marriages 1603-1754. Microfilm copies of baptisms 1657-1971, marriages 1657-1969, burials 1657-1954 and banns 1756-1817, 1854-1971 reside at the Cambridge Record Office.
Land Tax: records were compiled afresh each year and contain the names of owners and occupiers in each parish, but usually there is no address or place name. These records reside in the Cambridge Record Office for the years 1798-1803 and 1935-48.
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[Last updated 9 August 2007 Martin Edwards]