Huntingdonshire Parishes - Great Catworth
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Brief
Description:
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CATWORTH (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Kimbolton, containing 529 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £37.16.10½., and in the patronage of the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard. Sir Wolston Dixie, who was lord mayor of London in 1585, and a considerable benefactor to Emanuel College, Cambridge, having also founded a free school at Bosworth, in Leicestershire, was born here. 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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Great Catworth was originally in the St. Neots Registration District from 1st July 1837. Subsequently it became part of the Kimbolton sub-District, but it is now directly under the Huntingdon District. |
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First
Appearance of Name:
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Catworth - Domesday Book - 1086. |
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Updated on: 2 December 2001
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