WILBRAHAM (GREAT), a parish in the hundred
of STAINE, county of CAMBRIDGE, 7 miles (E. by S.)
from Cambridge, containing 495 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Ely, rated in the king's bpoks at £ll.'l8. 4.,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200
royal bounty, and in the patronage of Mrs. Hicks.
The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a cruciform
structure, with a tower at the west endj it had originally
a tower rising from the centre. The manor-house,
an ancient building formerly belonging to the Knights
Templars, is still called the Temple.