Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire

Description
Swaffham Bulbeck, a parish, with a village, in Cambridgeshire, 2 1/2 miles NW from Bottesham station on the Cambridge and Mildenhall section of the G.E.R., and 6 WSW of Newmarket It has a post and money order office under Cambridge; telegraph office, Swaffham Prior. Acreage, 4110; population, 800. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Upper Hare Park is a chief residence. A Benedictine nunnery was founded at Swaffham Abbey before the time of King John by one of the Bulbeck family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £200 with residenc& Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church, erected in the 14th century, is chiefly in the Late Decorated style, with an Early English tower. There is an endowed school with £35 a year.