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Huntingdonshire Parishes - Keyston

 

Brief Description:

KEYSTON, a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 3¼ miles (S.E. by E.) from Thrapston, containing 196 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £29.5. Earl Fitzwilliam was patron in 1807. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

This extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"
Hundred:
LEIGHTONSTONE
Registration District:
Keyston was in the Thrapston Registration District of Northamptonshire from 1st July 1837, but it subsequently came under the Raunds sub-District of Thrapston. In 1935, the parish was transferred to the Spaldwick sub-District. It is now part of the Huntingdon District.
First Appearance of Name:
Domesday Book - 1086
Available Bookstall items:

1841 Census
1851 Census
1891 Census
Monumental Inscriptions
Parish Registers

Links:

GENUKI Huntingdonshire - Keyston


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