Description
Eltisley, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire, contiguous with Hunts, 2 1/2 miles WNW of Caxton, and 5 E from St Neots station on the G.N.R. There is a post office under St Neots; money order and telegraph office, Caxton. Acreage, 1970 ; population, 438. A nunnery stood here in the Saxon time; is said to have been the burial-place of Pandionia, a Scottish princess, and was destroyed about the time of the Conquest. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £45. The church is an ancient building of stone, the principal part being of the Perpendicular style, but with a good specimen of Early English at the south entrance. It has a lofty embattled western tower and spire. There are also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.