HORNINGSEA, a parish in the hundred of FIENDISH,
county of CAMBRIDGE, 4 miles (N. E.) from
Cambridge, containing 285 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the
Bishop of Ely, and in the patronage of the Master and
Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church
is dedicated to St. Peter. At an early period here was
a considerable monastery of royal foundation, but it
was destroyed by the Danes about 870.