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Boxworth, Cambridgeshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.
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BOXWORTH:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.
[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1835]
(unless otherwise stated)
"BOXWORTH, a parish in the hundred of PAPWORTH, county of CAMBRIDGE, 6½ miles (N. E. by N.) from Caxton, containing 317 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, rated in the king's books at £ 18. 12. 8d., and in the patronage of George Thornhill, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, contains a monumental bust of Dr. Saunderson, F.R.S., the blind professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge; he died and was buried here, in 1759."
[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2010]