HEMINGFORD (GREY), a
parish in the hundred of TOSELAND, county of HUNTINGDON, 1¾
mile (W. by S.) from St. Ives, containing 475 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king’s books at £9.16.10., and in the patronage of the Master
and Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. James.
The river Ouse passes the village. Cowper, the poet, wrote "The Dog and the
Water Lily" when on a visit here.
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