Description
Arrington, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands on Ermine Street, near the bridge on the Cam, 3 miles S of Old North Road station on the L. & N.W.R., and 6 N of Royston, and was anciently called Erminton. It has a post and telegraph office under Royston, and is a seat of petty sessions. The parish comprises 1407 acres; population, 215. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; value, £42. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, and has a double piscina.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
