Description
Benwick, formerly a hamlet in Doddington parish, Cambridgeshire, now an ecclesiastical parish in the Isle of Ely, 5 miles from Wimblington station on the G.E.R., and 8 SW from March, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Doddington. Population, 794. the living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, ?276 with residence. The church, a building in the Early English style, was erected in 1851. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.