Boxworth, Cambridgeshire
Historical Description
Boxworth, a parish in Cambridgeshire, 4 miles SW of Swavesey station on the G.E.R., and 5 SSE of St Ives, Hunts. It has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Swavesey. Acreage, 2602; population, 274. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £610 with residence. The church has a monument of Sanderson, the blind professor of mathematics, and is an ancient building of flint in the Decorated style. 214
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 | Boxworth St. Peter | |
| Hundred | Papworth | |
| Poor Law union | St. Ives |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1558.
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter (parish church)
The church of St. Peter is an ancient edifice of flint and stone, in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, north and south porches and a lofty embattled tower containing a clock and one bell: in the church is a monument to Nicholas Saunderson LL.D., F.R.S. the celebrated blind professor of mathematics in the University of Cambridge, who died 10th April, 1759: the church was thoroughly restored in 1868-9, 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 Boxworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Boxworth (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Boxworth 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.