1808 Lysons

This extract comes from Lysons Cambridgeshire, 1808.

"Little Gransden, in the hundred of Stow, and deanery of Bourne, lies on the borders of Huntingdonshire, about 12 miles south west of Cambridge. The manor was one of the ancient estates of the church of Ely, and one of those assigned to the Bishop soon after the creation of the see: it was alienated by Bishop Heton to the Crown in 1600; and, in 1602, granted to Edward Skipwith; not long afterwards it was the property of Sir Erasmus Dryden, Bart., and, in 1660, of Sir Thomas Cotton, of whose descendant it was purchased, in 1719, by Thomas Pindar, Esq. : after passing through several hands, it was purchased of George Shergold, Esq.in 1786, by Thomas Quintin Esq., grandfather of Thomas Quintin Esq., the present proprietor. The advowson of the rectory is still in the see of Ely."