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Northern railway, 3 south from Whittlesea, and 6 north from Ramsey, in the Northern division of the county, Ramsey petty sessional division, rural deanery of St. Ives, archdeaconry of Huntingdon and diocese of Ely. The church of St. Thomas, erected by subscription in 1866, is a building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept and a bell turret carried on a buttress at the north-west angle, and containing 1 bell: in the chancel are a piscina and sedilia and four stained windows: the font consists of an octagonal basin on four alabaster shafts, and is richly carved: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from September, 1871. Up to July 14, 1867, baptisms solemnized in the licensed school room at Pond's Bridge were entered in the register of Ramsey St. Mary's, but from July 14, 1867 (inclusive), up to Aug. 13th, 1871 (inclusive), in the register of Whittlesey St. Mary's; since 1871 such baptisms have been entered in the Pond's Bridge register. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £124, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Ely, and held since 1897 by the Rev. William Henry Hampton L.Th. of Durham University. There is a church mission room, 2 ½ miles from the church, in which divine service is held and a Sunday school is carried on. The principal landowners are Lord De Ramsay, the trustees of the late J. W. Childers esq. of Cantley, Doncaster, and Lord Saye and Sele, of Broughton Castle, Banbury. The soil is black loam; subsoil, peat. The chief crops are wheat, oats and potatoes. The area is 5,500 acres; the population in 1891 was 623. Pond's Bridge parish school (mixed), built in 1872, for 100 children; average attendance, 96; in the school is a stained memorial window, formerly in the old mission room, & erected to Samuel Staffurth, of Ramsey, who built the first school in this district in 1844: he died in 1858 & the window was placed by his widow.
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National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868: PONDERSBRIDGE, a hamlet in the parish of Stanground, hundred of Norman-Cross, county Huntingdon. This hamlet was later transferred to the parish of Farcet when it was formed in 1866.
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