Arrington, Cambridgeshire
Historical Description
Arrington, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire. The village stands on Ermine Street, near the bridge on the Cam, 3 miles S of Old North Road station on the L. & N.W.R., and 6 N of Royston, and was anciently called Erminton. It has a post and telegraph office under Royston, and is a seat of petty sessions. The parish comprises 1407 acres; population, 215. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; valne, £42. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, and has a double piscina.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Cambridgeshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Arrington St. Nicholas | |
| Hundred | Wetherley | |
| Poor Law union | Caxton and Arrington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register of marriages and burials dates from the year 1538; baptisms, 1550.
Churches
Church of England
St. Nicholas (parish church)
The church of St. Nicholas is a small but ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, with some reputed Saxon remains, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled tower of brick with a low spire and containing one bell: the church was restored in 1894, at a cost of £300, and affords 150 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Arrington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Arrington (St. Nicholas))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Arrington are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cambridgeshire papers online:
- Cambridge Independent Press
- Cambridge Chronicle and Journal
- Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Cambridgeshire 1575 and 1619 is available online.