Description
Bottisham, a large village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Cam, with a station on the G.E.R., 6 1/2 miles ENE of Cambridge, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office, and is a seat of petty sessions. The parish includes also the hamlets of Lode, or Bottisham Lode, Fen, and Long-meadow. Acreage, 5997; population, 1501. Bottisham Hall is the seat of the Jenyns family. Traces exist at Anglesey of an Augustinian priory founded in the time of Henry I. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, ?300 with residence. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is a beautiful building of flint and stone, and one of the finest specimens of pure Decorated in the county. The hamlets of Bottisham Lode, Longmeadow, and Fen were formed in 1863 into the ecclesiastical parish of St James. The church is a building of stone, erected in 1853. The living is a vicarage; net yearly value, ?153, in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge. There are Baptist and Congregational chapels.