This extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"

COLNE, a parish in the hundred of HURSTINGSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 2ΒΌ miles (S.E. by S.) from Sornersham, containing 480 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Somersham, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, is in the early style of English architecture, with a western tower; it contains some remains of figures and armorial bearings in stained glass, and is situated about half a mile from the village.