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Huntingdonshire Parishes - Woodston

 

Brief Description:

WOODSTONE, a parish in the hundred of NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, ¾ of a mile (S.W. by W.) from Peterborough, containing 149 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7.11.3., and in the patronage of John Bevis, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Augustine. John and Mary Walsham, in 1728, gave certain land for the establishment of a school and other charitable purposes.

This extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"
Hundred:
NORMAN CROSS
Registration District:
Woodston has been in the Peterborough Registration District continuously since 1st July 1837.

First Appearance of Name:
Woodstone - Charter - 973.
Available Bookstall items:

1841 Census
1851 Census
1891 Census

Links:

GENUKI Huntingdonshire - Woodston
Cambridgeshire History on the Net - Woodtson
Kelly's Directory 1903 - Woodston


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