Burrough Green

Signpost in Burrough Green
Burrough Green
Burrough Green church
Burrough Green is located in Cambridgeshire
Burrough Green
Burrough Green
Location within Cambridgeshire
Population378 (2011)
OS grid referenceTL641548
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNewmarket
Postcode districtCB8
Websitehttp://www.burroughgreenparishcouncil.org.uk
List of places
UK
England
Cambridgeshire
52°10′N 0°24′E / 52.17°N 0.4°E / 52.17; 0.4

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."

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 154 Cambridge & Newmarket (Saffron Walden) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319231739.
  2. ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 July 2016.