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Stuntney

STUNTNEY, a chapelry, in the parish of the Holy Trinity, Ely, union, hundred, and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 1½ mile (S. E.) from Ely; containing 220 inhabitants. It consists of about 2500 acres: the soil is fertile, producing wheat, barley, and oats; the surface generally is flat, and the river Ouse flows within half a mile of the village. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £77; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Ely. The tithes have been commuted for £580, and the glebe comprises 32 acres. The chapel is in the Norman style of architecture.

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

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