Huntingdonshire Parishes - Sawtry
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Brief
Description:
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SAWTRY (ALL SAINTS), a parish in the hundred of NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, 3½ Miles (S.) from Stilton, containing 501 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £6.15.7½, and in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The church, which is ancient, has three seats, or stalls, on the north side of the chancel. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A monastery, in honour of the Blessed Virgin, was founded in 1146, by Simon, Earl of Northampton who brought hither from the abbey of Wardon, or Sards, in Bedfordshire, a convent of Cistercian monks, whose revenue at the dissolution was estimated at £199.11.8. SAWTRY (ST. ANDREW), a parish in the hundred of NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, 3½ miles (S. by E.) from Stilton, containing 319 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the kings books at £8.1.0½. A. Annesley, Esq. was patron in 1812. SAWTRY (ST. JUDITH), an extra-parochial liberty (formerly a parish), in the hundred of NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, 4 miles (S. by E.) from Stilton, containing 207 inhabitants. The church has long been demolished. Here, it is said, was formerly a cell to the abbey of Ramsey. This
extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"
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Hundred:
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NORMAN-CROSS |
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Registration
District:
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Sawtry was originally in the Huntingdondon Registration District of Huntingdon since 1st July 1837. It subsequently became a sub-District itself. It is now part of the Huntingdon Registration District again. |
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First
Appearance of Name:
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Charter - 974. |
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Available
Bookstall items:
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1841
Census |
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Links:
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Updated on: 15 December 2001
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