Huntingdonshire Parishes - Great Paxton
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Brief
Description:
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PAXTON (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of TOSELAND, county of HUNTINGDON, 3 miles (N.E. by N.) from St. Neot’s, containing 250 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacies of Little Paxton and Toseland, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln. rated in the king’s books at £16.2.11., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The river Ouse bounds the parish on the west. 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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Great Paxton was originally in the St. Neots Registration District from 1st July 1837, which later became a sub-District. From 1st April 1997, it is now directly under the Huntingdon District. |
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First
Appearance of Name:
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Paxton - Domesday Book - 1086. |
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Updated on: 12 January 2002
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