This extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"
EARITH, a chapelry in the parish BLUNTISHAM, hundred of HURSTINGSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 3 miles (S.E.) from Somersham, containing 674 inhabitants, The chapel, which was dedicated to St. James, has been demolished. A school is endowed with about £50 per annum. Cattle fairs are held, May 4th, July 25th, and November 1st.