Description
Gamlingay, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands on the verge of the county, near the Bedford and Cambridge branch of the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles NNE of Potton, is large and populous, was once a market-town, and has now a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sandy. The parish contains also the hamlets of Woodbury and Tetworth. Acreage, 4460; population, 1692. The living is twofold, a vicarage and a rectory, in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £295 with residence. Patron of the former, the Bishop of Ely; of the latter, Merton College, Oxford. The church is Early English, and very handsome. It was restored in 1881. There is also a church at Gamlingay Heath, erected in 1886. There are Baptist, Calvinistic, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Woodbury Hall is a chief residence.