Eltisley, Cambridgeshire

Historical Description

Eltisley, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire, contiguous with Hunts, 2¼ miles WNW of Caxton, and 5 E from St Neots station on the G.N.R. There is a post office under St Neots; money order and telegraph office, Caxton. Acreage, 1970; population, 438. A nunnery stood here in the Saxon time; is said to have been the burial-place of Pandionia, a Scottish princess, and was destroyed about the time of the Conquest. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £45. The church is an ancient building of stone, the principal part being of the Perpendicular style, but with a good specimen of Early English at the south entrance. It has a lofty embattled western tower and spire. There are also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

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 Eltisley from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Eltisley (St. Pandiania & St. John the Baptist))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Eltisley 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.