Burrough Green | |
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Burrough Green church | |
Location within Cambridgeshire | |
Population | 378 (2011) |
OS grid reference | TL641548 |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Newmarket |
Postcode district | CB8 |
Website | http://www.burroughgreenparishcouncil.org.uk |
Burrough Green is a village and parish in Cambridgeshire, England.[1][2] The population of the village at the 2011 census was 378.[3] The soil is various; subsoil, clay and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area of the parish is 2,272 acres (919 ha); the population in 1921 was 334."
It is described in Kelly's Directory (1929) as a "village and parish 2½ miles south-east from Dullingham station on the Cambridge and Bury branch of the London and North Eastern Railway and 6 south from Newmarket, in the hundred of Radfield, Newmarket union, petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Cheveley, archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."