STETCHWORTH, a parish in the hundred of
RADFIELD, county of CAMBRIDGE, 2 miles (S. by W.)
from Newmarket, containing 462 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Ely, rated in the king's books at £10. 12. 1
R. Eaton, Esq. was patron in 1809. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter. An almshouse for two poor per-
sons of each sex was founded here, in 1700, by Lord
and Lady Gorges, who endowed it with £ 30 per am
num.