ELTISLEY, a parish in the hundred of LONGSTOW,
county of CAMBRIDGE, 3 miles (N.W. by W.) from Caxr
ton, containing 319 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry anddiocese of
Ely, rated in the king's books at £7. 16. 8., .endowed
with £600 royal .bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated
to St. Pandiania and St, John .the Baptist, is
partly in the early. style of English architecture, with
later insertions. A school has been lately erected by Sir
G. W. Leeds, and an annual donation of £ 6 is appropriated
towards teaching poor children. A nunnery
formerly stood near the vicarage-house, where St. Pandiania,
the daughter of a king of Scotland, is said to
have been huried: it was destroyed about the time of
the Conquest.