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| Name | Elton |
| Alt names | Adelintone | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 141 | | Adelintune | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 141 |
| Type | Ancient parish, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.533°N 0.4°W |
| Located in | Huntingdonshire, England ( - 1965) |
| Also located in | Huntingdon and Peterborough, England (1965 - 1974) | | Cambridgeshire, England (1974 - ) |
| See also | Polebrook Hundred, Northamptonshire, England | hundred in which it was located | | Oundle Rural, Huntingdonshire, England | rural district in which it was located until 1894-1935 | | Norman Cross Rural, Huntingdonshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1935-1965 | | Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England | district municipality of which it has been part since 1974 |
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
From 1894 until 1935, Elton was in the Oundle Rural District of Huntingdonshire and prior to that in the Polebrook Hundred of Northamptonshire. Oundle Rural District was made up of parishes in both Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire until 1935. When legislation went through to oblige rural districts to represent only one county, Oundle Rural District in Huntingdonshire was abolished, and Elton parish was transferred to the existing Norman Cross Rural District where it remained until 1974. It is now part of the Huntingdonshire administrative district of Cambridgeshire.
Elton lies on the B671 road as do Elton Hall and the hamlet of Over End which are about a mile south of the village. Elton is two miles from Fotheringhay (where Mary, Queen of Scots was executed in 1587), five miles from Oundle, and eight miles from Peterborough. In 2011, the parish covered an area of 3,771 acres (1,526 hectares) and had a population of 679 according to the UK census of that year.
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).
- "ELTON, a village and a parish in the [registration] district of Oundle, and county of Huntingdon. The village stands on the verge of the county and on the river Nen, adjacent to the Northampton and Peterborough railway, 4¼ miles NE by N of Oundle; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Oundle.
- "The parish comprises 3,250 acres. Real property: £5,887. Population: 947. Houses: 211. The property is divided among a few. Elton Hall is the seat of the Earl of Carysfort. Remains exist of an ancient seat of the Sapcotts and the Probys. Part of the land is hill-pasture and heath. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value: £478. Patron: University College, Oxford. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel. Cooper's hospital has £165; Proby's school has £40; and other charities have £16."
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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
Categories: Huntingdonshire, England | Elton, Huntingdonshire, England | Polebrook Hundred, Northamptonshire, England | Oundle Rural, Huntingdonshire, England | Norman Cross Rural, Huntingdonshire, England | Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England |
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