Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEEDINGWORTH

NEEDINGWORTH, a village in Holywell parish, Huntingdon; 2 miles E N E of St. Ives. It is neatly built; and has a post-office under St. Ives, Huntingdon, a large Baptist chapel, built in 1861, and a parochial school, formerly a dissenting chapel. Sir Ambrose Nicholas, lord-mayor of London in 1576, was a native.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Huntingdonshire AncC
Place: Needingworth

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