Girton, Cambridgeshire

Historical Description

Girton, a parish in Cambridgeshire, 3¼ miles NNE of 'Cambridge, and 2½ SW from Histon station on the G.E.R. Jt has a post office under Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Cambridge. Acreage, 1681; population, 480. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £301 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, a building of rubble and stone, chiefly in the ,Perpendicular style, has a tower, contains two brasses of the 15th century, and was restored in 1858. Girton College, first opened at Hitchin in 18G9, and removed toGirton in 1873, is a self-supporting institution designed ior the higher education of women, and by a grace of the Senate of the University of Cambridge granted in 1881, its students are admitted to the previous and tripos examinations. The college, a plain building of red brick, stands on the Huntingdon Road, about 1½ mile from Cambridge. There is a Baptist chapel.

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 Girton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Girton (St. Andrew))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Girton 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.