Huntingdonshire Parishes - Alconbury
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Brief
Description:
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ALCONBURY, a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county Of HUNTINGDON, 4½ miles (N.W.) from Huntingdon, containing 783 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8.6.1., endowed With £200 private benefaction, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. A fair is held on Midsummer-day. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. This extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831" |
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Hundred:
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LEIGHTONSTONE |
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Registration
District:
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Alconbury was originally in the Registration District of Huntingdon from 1st July 1837. Subsequently, it came under the Spaldwick sub-District, but once again it is now directly under Huntingdon District. |
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First
Appearance of Name:
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Domesday Book - 1086. |
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Available
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1841
Census 1851 Census 1891 Census Monumental Inscriptions |
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Updated on: 29 November 2001
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