GRANSDEN
(GREAT), a parish in the hundred of TOSELAND, county of HUNTINGDON,
7¼ Miles (S.E. by E.) from St. Neot's, containing 545 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £5.7.3½., endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Master
and Fellows of Clare Hall, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew.
There is a place of worship for Baptists. A school-house was built by subscription
in 1664, and endowed under the will of the Rev. B. Clay, then vicar; and in
1819 a house was erected for the master. Throughout this parish are scattered
many diluvial remains, consisting of primitive and secondary rocked and fossils
of almost every description, mineralised wood and vegetables, the vertebrae
of the lchthyosaurus, &c.
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