Huntingdonshire Parishes - Fletton
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Brief
Description:
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FLETTON, a parish in the hundred of NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, 1 mile (S. by E.) from Peterborough, containing 159 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9.3.9. The Earl of Carysfort was patron in 1798. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. In digging a well in this parish, in the year 1739, fossil shells and wood were found at the depth of thirty feet. 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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Fletton has been in the Peterborough Registration District continuously since 1st July 1837. |
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First
Appearance of Name:
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Charter - 664. |
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Updated on: 1 December 2001
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