Wendy, Cambridgeshire
Historical Description
Wendy, a parish in Cambridgeshire, 5 miles NNW of Royston station on the G.N.R. It has a post office under Royston; money order and telegraph office, Arrington. Acreage, 1023; population of the civil parish, 127; of the ecclesiastical with Shingay, 201. The living is a vicarage, united with Shingay, in the diocese of Ely; net value, £115 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1867, and is a building of stone in the Early English style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cambridgeshire | |
Hundred | Armingford | |
Poor Law union | Royston |
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 Wendy from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wendy 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.