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Shingay (St. Mary)

SHINGAY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Royston, hundred of Armingford, county of Cambridge, 6½ miles (N. W. by-N.) from Royston; containing 137 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Wendy. A commandery of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem was founded here in 1140, the revenue of which, at the suppression, was estimated at £175. 4. 6.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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