Place:Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England

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NameGreat Staughton
Alt namesTochestonesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 141
Dillingtonsource: village in parish
West Perrysource: village in parish
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates52.267°N 0.35°W
Located inHuntingdonshire, England     ( - 1965)
Also located inHuntingdon and Peterborough, England     (1965 - 1974)
Cambridgeshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoToseland Hundred, Huntingdonshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
St Neots Rural, Huntingdonshire, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1974
Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, Englanddistrict municipality of which it has been part since 1974
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Great Staughton is a village and large civil parish located until 1974 in the county of Huntingdonshire. Since that year, along with the rest of Huntingdonshire, it has been in the Huntingdonshire District of Cambridgeshire, England.

Great Staughton lies approximately 8 miles (13 km) southwest of the town of Huntingdon and is west of the town of St Neots. Its south and west boundaries are with the county of Bedfordshire. (Little Staughton is in Bedfordshire.) The parish covers an area of 5,078 acres (2,055 hectares) and had a population of 896 according to the UK census of 2011. It included the hamlet of Dillington towards the northeast and of West Perry on its northern edge. West Perry, combined with East Perry in Grafham parish, is now a separate civil parish.

The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"STAUGHTON (Great), a parish, with several hamlets, in St. Neots [registration] district, Hunts; 3 miles SE of Kimbolton [railway] station. It has a post-office under St. Neots. Acres: 5,940. Real property, £8:900. Population: 1,312. Houses: 297. The property is much subdivided. [Staughton] House and Gaines Hall are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value: £500. Patron: St. John's College, Oxford. The church is ancient but good. There are two Baptist chapels, a Wesleyan chapel, a parochial school, and charities £49."
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Research Tips

  • Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS
  • The Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society has transcribed the parish registers for all the ancient parishes of Huntingdonshire and these can be purchased from the Society as pdfs.
  • A History of the County of Huntingdon in 3 volumes from British History Online (Victoria County Histories). This is by far the most complete history of the parishes of the county to be found online. The chapters are ordered by the divisions of the county called hundreds, but each chapter is linked to the volume's content page. Volume 2 (published 1932) covers Hurstingstone and Toseland hundreds (index of parishes); Leightonstone and Norman Cross Hundreds (index of parishes) are found in Volume 3 (published 1936). Volume 1 is a part-volume describing the religious houses of the county.
  • GENUKI has a page on Huntingdonshire and pages for each of the ecclesiastical or ancient parishes in the county. These give references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area.
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions.
  • Map of Huntingdonshire divisions in 1888 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
  • Map of Huntingdonshire divisions in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
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