STOW (LONG), a parish in the hundred of LONGSTOW,
county of CAMBRIDGE, 2 miles (S. S. E.) from
Caxton, containing 191 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, rated
in the king's hooks at £4. 8. 4. The Rev.W.Wright
was patron in 1820. An hospital for poor sisters was
founded here, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, in
the reign of Henry III., by Walter, the then vicar.