Description
Girton, a parish in Cambridgeshire, 3 1/2 miles NNE of Cambridge, and 2 1/4 SW from Histon station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Cambridge. Acreage, 1681; population, 480. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £301 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, a building of rubble and stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, has a tower, contains two brasses of the 15th century, and was restored in 1858. Girton College, first opened at Hitchin in 1869, and removed to Girton in 1873, is a self-supporting institution designed for the higher education of women, and by a grace of the Senate of the University of Cambridge granted in 1881, its students are admitted to the previous and tripos examinations. The college, a plain building of red brick, stands on the Huntingdon Road, about 1 1/4 mile from Cambridge. There is a Baptist chapel.