Description
Drayton, Dry, a parish in Cambridgeshire, on an affluent of the river Ouse, near the Via Devana, 2 1/4 miles SW of Oakington station on the G.E.R., and 5 NW of Cambridge. It has a post office under Cambridge ; money order and telegraph office, Cambridge. Acreage, 2421; population, 345. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £216 with residence. The church has a brass of 1520, and is good. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
