CATWORTH (GREAT),
a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON,
4 miles (N. by W.) from Kimbolton, containing 529 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £37.16.10½., and in the patronage of the Principal
and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard.
Sir Wolston Dixie, who was lord mayor of London in 1585, and a considerable
benefactor to Emanuel College, Cambridge, having also founded a free school
at Bosworth, in Leicestershire, was born here.
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