Huntingdonshire Parishes - Leighton Bromswold
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Brief
Description:
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LEIGHTON, a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 5½ miles (N. by E.) from Kimbolton, containing 446 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Leighton in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. 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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Leighton Bromswold was originally in the Huntingdon Registration District from 1st July 1837. Subsequently it became part of the Spaldwick sub-District, but it is now directly under the Huntingdon District again. |
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First
Appearance of Name:
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Leighton - Domesday Book - 1086. |
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