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"Harlton is a parish, 1¾ miles from Lord’s Bridge station, on the North Western railway, 47 miles from London, and 6 south west from Cambridge, in the hundred of Wetherley, Union of Chesterton (1) country court district of Cambridge, rural Deanery of Barton and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely.
The church of the Assumption of the Virgin is in the Perpendicular style, and consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches, embattled tower containing 3 bells, and is of considerable architectural interest: there is a handsome stained window on the north side of the chancel to the memory of the late rector, the Rev. James Fendall (2).
The register dates from the year 1584. The living is a rectory (3), endowed with 280 acres of glebe land, in the gift of Jesus College, Cambridge, and held since 1867 by the Rev. Osmond Fisher, M.A., late fellow and tutor of that college (4).
There is a small Congregational chapel (5)."
Footnotes:
1. ‘Union of Chesterton’ was the Poor Law Union into which parishes were grouped. The Chesterton workhouse was the site of internment for the poor.
2. James Fendall built the existing rectory, now a private house.
3. This land was awarded to the Rector at the enclosures of 1806-8 in lieu of his right to tithes, and it was sold long ago.
4. Osmond Fisher was the author of the highly influential geology textbook “Physics of the Earth’s Crust” (1881- but now available on-line).’
5. This was a prefabricated building, in the garden of Yew Tree Farm, and long demolished.
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