Huntingdonshire Parishes - Woolley
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Brief
Description:
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WOOLLEY, a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 5 miles (N.E. by N.) from Kimbolton, containing 64 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £9.9.2. Henry Sweeting, Esq. was patron in 1817. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a western tower crowned with a handsome cupola. 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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Woolley 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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Domesday Book - 1086. |
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Updated on: 17 December 2001
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