Description
Hildersham, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands on the river Granta, 1 1/4 mile NW from Linton station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Linton. The parish comprises 1511 acres; population, 206. Hildersham Hall is a country residence standing in a park of 70 acres. The manor belonged formerly to the De Veres, Earls of Oxford, and belongs now to the Huddlestons. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £385. The church is an ancient and interesting building of rubble, chiefly in the Decorated style, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower. Matthew Paris the chronicler is supposed to have been a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
