Huntingdonshire Parishes - Great Gidding
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Brief
Description:
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GIDDING (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 5 miles (S.W.) from Stilton, containing 496 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8.5.2., and in the patronage of Lord Sondes. The church, dedicated to St. Michael contains a curious bason for holy water, resembling a Norman capital. A salary is paid by Lord Sondes to a master for teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, to twenty poor boys. 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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The parish of Great Gidding was in the Oundle Registration District of Northamptonshire from 1st July 1837. In 1935, the parish was transferred to the Spaldwick sub-District of Huntingdonshire. It is now part of the Huntingdon District. |
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First
Appearance of Name:
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Gidding - 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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