Huntingdonshire Parishes - Chesterton
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Brief
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CHESTERTON, a parish in the hundred of NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, 4½ miles (N.N.W.) from Stilton, containing 95 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £17.3.4., and in the patronage of the Earl of Aboyne. church, dedicated to St. Michael, is principally in the early style of English architecture. Midway between this and Castor is the site of Durobrivæ, the fort of which was placed on the Huntingdonshire side 0f the river Nene; and at Castle field is a large tract enclosed by a ditch and rampart, with the Roman road Ermin-street running through it obliquely. On making a turnpike road across the site of the ancient city of Durobrivæ, several stone coffins, urns, and coins, were dug Up; and by the side of the high road near this place, in 1754, was found a coffin of yellowish stone, six feet two inches long, within which were a skeleton, three glass lachrymatories, some coins, and scraps of white wood inscribed with Greek and Roman letters. This
extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"
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Hundred:
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NORMAN CROSS |
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Registration
District:
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Chesterton
was originally in the Peterbrough Registration District of Northamptonshire
from 1st July 1837. Subsequently it was transferred to the Stilton sub-District
of Huntingdonshire. It was later transferred back to the Peterborough District.
From 1st April 1998, marriage records were transferred to the Huntingdon Registry Office, but the births and burial records were retained by Peterborough. |
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First
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Charter - 955 |
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Updated on: 29 November 2001
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