Huntingdonshire Parishes - Swineshead
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Brief
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SWINESHEAD, a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, though locally in the hundred of Stodden, county of Bedford, 3½ miles (S.W. by W.) from Kimbolton, containing 245 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £12.13.6½, and in the patronage of the Duke of Manchester. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. This extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831" Local government reorganisation in 1896 saw Swineshead transferred from Huntingdonshire to Bedfordshire in exchange for Tilbrook. |
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Hundred:
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LEIGHTONSTONE |
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Registration
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Swineshead 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 Registration District. |
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First
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Charter - 1055. |
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Updated on: 16 December 2001
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