BURROUGH-GREEN, a parish in the hundred
of RADFIELD, county of CAMBRIDGE, 5. miles (S.) from
Newmarket, containing 381 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, rated
in the king's books at £18. 10., and in the'patronage of
the Duke of Rutland. The church is dedicated to St.
Augustine. A charity school is endowed with about
£30 per annum, chiefly arising from a benefaction from
Samuel Knight, D.D., in 1734. Editha, consort of
Edward the Confessor, had a palace here.