HOLYWELL, a parish in
the hundred of HURSTINGSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 2 miles
(E. by S.) from St. Ives, containing, with the hamlet of Needingworth, 782
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and
diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king’s books at £30.6.3. The Duke of Manchester
was patron in 1804. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, stands
on a hill, at the foot of which is a spring of clear and excellent water,
called the Holy Well, formerly held in great veneration, but now neglected.
The river Ouse runs through the parish.
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