Description
Barton, a parish in Cambridgeshire, on the Bourn, or Bourn Brook, a tributary of the Cam river, 1 1/2 mile NE from Lords Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 1/2 miles SW of Cambridge. It has a post office under Cambridge; money order office, Grantchester. Acreage, 1834; population, 281. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, ?142 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church, an ancient edifice of stone in the Early Decorated style, was restored and repaired in 1886. The rectorial tithes belong to King's College, Cambridge.