CARLTON CUM WILLINGHAM:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.
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"CARLTON CUM WILLINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of RADFIELD,
county of CAMBRIDGE, 65 miles (S.) from Newmarket,
containing, with the chapelry of Willingham, 363 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Ely, rated in the king's books at £9, and in
the patronage of Lord Dacre. The church is dedicated to
St. Peter. Sir Thomas Elliot, author of a Latin dictionary,
and other works, resided here, and dying in 1546,
was buried in the church."
- "WILLINGHAM, a chapelry in the parish of CARLTON CUM WILLINGHAM,
hundred of RADFIELD, county of CAMBRIDGE, 5
miles (S by E.) from Newmarket: the population is
returned with the parish. It is within the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Bishop of Ely. The chapel is dedicated
to St. Matthew."
[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2010]
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