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"LITTLE WILBRAHAM, a parish in the hundred of Staine, county Cambridge, 1 mile north of Great Wilbraham. The parish includes the hamlet of Six-mile Bottom. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Ely, value £330, in the patronage of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, contains a brass of W. Blackway, bearing date 1521. There is a National school. The charities produce about £75 per annum, including Johnson's bequest for the poor, and about 30 acres of common. Many Saxon antiquities were discovered in an ancient churchyard here in October, 1851."SIX MILE BOTTOM, is a hamlet in the parishes of Little Wilbraham, Bottisham, Brinkley, Carlton cum Willingham, Swaffham Bulbeck, Westley Waterless, and Weston Colville. It has a station on the Cambridge and Bury branch of the London and North Eastern railway. There is a congregational chapel, erected in 1881, with 80 sittings, and a reading room and library. There is also a recreation ground, pleasantly situated near the railway station and enclosed by a double row of trees : a cross of rough granite was erected in 1924 as a memorial to the men of this parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. Swyntord Paddocks is the residence of Capt. Malcolm Bollock M.B.E., M.P.
See also Six Mile Bottom main page."