Huntingdonshire Parishes - Fenstanton
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Brief
Description:
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FEN-STANTON, a parish in the hundred of TOSELAND, county of HUNTINGDON, 2½ miles (S. by E.) from St. Ives, containing 776 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage with the perpetual curacy of Hilton annexed, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £11.11.5½., and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. Joseph Ellis, in 1728, endowed a school with about £10 a year, for teaching four children of Fen-Stanton, and four of Fen-Drayton. The river Ouse runs through the parish. This
extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"
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Hundred:
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TOSELAND |
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Registration
District:
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Fen Stanton was in the St Ives Registration District from 1st July 1837. This later became a sub-District of Huntingdon until 31st March 1997, since when it has been in the Huntingdon Registration District. |
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First
Appearance of Name:
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Charter - 1012. |
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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: 18 May 2004
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