Over (St. Mary)

OVER (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of St. Ives, hundred of Papworth, county of Cambridge, 4½ miles (E. by S.) from St. Ives; containing 1119 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £19. 0. 10.; net income, £108; patrons, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The rectory, an impropriation belonging to the college, is valued in the king's books at £51. 13. 11½. There is a place of worship for Baptists. The late Mrs. Kirkby gave the sum of £300, since laid out in land, for the endowment of a school for the poor, and the relief of widows.