Knapwell: Nonconformity

A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9, Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1989.

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NONCONFORMITY

Few dissenters were recorded before 1850. (fn. 1) Thereafter until the 1880s three or four occasionally went to chapel at Elsworth. (fn. 2) One prominent farmer who died in 1972 had been a Methodist preacher for 50 years. (fn. 3)

Footnotes

  • 1. None in C.U.L., E.D.R., B 8/1, f. 20v.; B 7/1, p. 102; C 1/4; C 1/6.
  • 2. Ibid. C 3/25; C 3/30.
  • 3. Camb. Ind. Press, 4 Feb. 1972.
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