Pampisford, Cambridgeshire

Description
Pampisford, a parish, with a village, in Cambridgeshire, and a station about 1 1/2 mile from the village on the Cambridge and Colchester or Haverhill branch of the G.E.R., 1 E of Whittlesford station on the G.E. main line, 1 3/4 N of the boundary with Essex, and 4 1/4 miles WNW of Linton. It has a post office under Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Sawston. Acreage, 1607; population, 329. There is a parish council consisting of five members and a chairman. Pampisford Hall, a large mansion of brick, about a mile from the village, stands in the midst of beautiful grounds, and was a seat of the Hamond family, who owned the manor and much of the land. It is now the property of the Binney family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £50 with residence. The church, which is surrounded by some beautiful elms, is an ancient building of flint and rubble with traces of Norman, and consists of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and western tower with spire. It has an ancient rood-screen and a Norman font.