Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ABINGTON

ABINGTON, a village in Great Abington parish, Cambridge; near the and Haverhill railway, 2½ miles NW of Linton. It has a post office under Cambridge, and a r. station; and was formerly a market-town.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Great Abington AP/CP       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Great Abington

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