Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire
Historical Description
Guilden Morden, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire, on the river Rhea, adjacent to Beds and Herts, 4 miles N from Ashwell station on the G.N.R., and 6 NW from Roy-ston. There is a post office under Royston; money order and telegraph office, Ashwell. Acreage, 2599; population, 819. The manor belongs to the Hardwicke family. Large quantities of coprolites have been obtained. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £340 with residence. Patron, Jesus' College, Cambridge. The church, which is a building of flint and stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, with porch and tower; was repaired in 1856, and has monuments of the Hayes and the Storeys. There is a Congregational chapel. Odsey is an adjacent hamlet.
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 | Guilden Morden St. Mary | |
| Hundred | Armingford | |
| Poor Law union | Royston |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Guilden Morden from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Morden, Guilden (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Guilden Morden 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.