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Potton, 50 miles from London, and 6 or 7 from Biggleswade, has a good corn market, though not equal to what it was formerly ; the decline is attributed by some to a fire which, in 1783, destroyed above fifty houses, and did damage to the amount of more than £25,000. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the crown. It was once held by the celebrated Stillingfleet, who wrote here his Origines Sacrae, a work esteemed one of the best defences of revealed religion. |
Old Towns is a resource of 19th century English historical data, extracted and digitized from articles written between 1833 and 1848 which were originally published in 'The Penny Magazine' by The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. |