Description
Balsham, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands near Worsted Street, 3 miles NNE from Linton station on the G.E.R., and 10 SW of Cambridge. It has a post and money order office under Cambridge; telegraph office, Linton. The parish has an acreage of 4550, and includes part of the Gogmagog Hills; population, 894. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, ?887 with residence. Patrons, the Governors of the Charterhouse, London. The church is a handsome building of flint, rubble, and brick in the Perpendicular style. There is also a Congregational chapel.