Huntingdonshire Parishes - Great Staughton
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Brief
Description:
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STAUGHTON
(GREAT), a parish comprising the divisions of North Side and South
Side, in the hundred of TOSELAND, county of HUNTINGDON,
3¼ miles (S.E. by S.) from Kimbolton, and containing 1173 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 20, and in the. patronage of
the President and Fellows of St. John’s College, Oxford. The church is
dedicated to St. Andrew. There are two small be quests in support of a
school, by Elizabeth Couyers, in 1709, and John Poachby, in 1727.
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 Staughton 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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Staughton - Charter - 974. |
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Updated on: 2 December 2001
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