Huntingdonshire Parishes - Eaton Socon (Bedfordshire)
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Brief
Description:
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EATON-SOCON, a parish in the hundred of BARFORD, county of BEDFORD, 1½ mile (S.W.) from St. Neot's, containing, with Wyboston, 2039 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the kings books at £20.13.9. The Duke of Bedford was patron in 1808. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Here was anciently a castle, the residence of a branch of the family of Beauchamps; also a priory for Augustine friars, founded by Sir Oliver Beauchamp and his son Hugh, the only remaining portion of which is the refractory, now converted into stables. The river Ouse is navigable along the eastern boundary of the parish. This
extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"
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Hundred:
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BARFORD |
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Registration
District:
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Eaton Socon was originally in the St. Neots Registration District, which itself became a sub-district of Huntingdon. From 1st April 1997, it has been in the Huntingdon Registration District. |
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First
Appearance of Name:
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probably Domesday Book - 1086. |
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Available
Bookstall items:
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1841
Census |
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Links:
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GENUKI
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Updated on: 11 March 2003
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