OAKINGTON, a parish partly in the hundred of
CHESTERTON, but chiefly in that of NORTHSTOW,
county of CAMBRIDGE, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Cambridge,
containing, with the hamlet of Westwick, 440
inhabitants. The living is;a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Ely, rated in the king's books at
£4. 13. 1., and in the patronage of the President and
Fellows of Queen's College, Cambridge. The church
is dedicated to St. Andrew. There is a place of worship
for Baptists.