WILBURTON, a parish in the southern division
of the hundred of WITCHFORD, Isle of ELY, county of
CAMBRIDGE, 6 miles (S. W.) from Ely, containing 465
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £500 royal bounty, and in
the patronage of the Archdeacon of Ely. The church
is a handsome structure, dedicated to St. Peter. .There
is a place of worship for Baptists. The parsonagehouse
was anciently the seat of the Archdeacons of Ely,
at which Henry VII. and his son, Prince Henry, were
entertained for several days, when that sovereign came
to visit the shrine of St. Ethelreda at Ely.