Sawston, Cambridgeshire

Description
Sawston, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands near the river Cam, 1 mile NNE of Whittlesford station on the London and Cambridge section of the G.E.R., and 7 miles SSE of Cambridge. It was once a market-town, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Cambridge. The parish comprises 1898 acres; population, 1882. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The manor, with Sawston Hall, belongs to the Huddleston family. The industries include a large paper-mill employing about 400 workpeople, and some extensive leather works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £265 with residence. The church is a building of flint and rubble in the Norman, Early English, and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, N porch, and an embattled western tower. It contains some ancient and interesting brasses, tombs, and monuments. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels and a Salvation Army barracks. Sawston Hall, an ancient mansion rebuilt in the reign of Queen Mary, which stands in the centre of the village, has a private Roman Catholic chapel attached. There are almshouses for eight poor persons and charities worth about £130 a year.