Morborn (All Saints)

MORBORN (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Peterborough, hundred of Norman-Cross, county of Huntingdon, 2½ miles (N. W.) from Stilton; containing 93 inhabitants. It comprises by computation 1123 acres, of which about 600 are arable, and the remainder, with the exception of a small portion of woodland, pasture and meadow; the surface is flat, and the prevailing wood, elm, ash, and oak. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £10. 6. 10½., and in the gift of R. E. Duncombe Shafto, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £164. 14., and the glebe comprises 81½ acres. The church is an ancient structure, partly Norman, and partly in the later English style.