GIRTON, a parish in the hundred of NORTHSTOW, county of CAMBRIDGE, 3 miles (N.N.W.) from Cam- bridge, containing 325 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, rated in the king's books at £18. 4. 4. Sir S. V. Cotton, Bart, was patron in 1807. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew; its tower is in the later style of English architecture.