PAPWORTH (ST-AGNES), a parish partly in the hundred
of TOSELAND, county of HUNTINGDON, but chiefly
in the hundred of PAPWORTH, county of CAMBRIDGE,
5 miles (N. N. W.) from Caxton, containing 74 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Ely, rated in the king's books at £9. 16. 3.,
and in the patronage of Henry Piper Sperling, Esq.
The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is in
Cambridgeshire. From the extensive ruins scattered
throughout the parish, Papworth appears to have been
formerly a place of considerable importance, and the remains
of the old manor-house, now a farm-house, still
exhibit vestiges of decayed magnificence. There is a
saline chalybeate spring in the parish, which at one
time was in great repute.