Place:Etton, Northamptonshire, England

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NameEtton
Alt namesWoodcroftsource: deserted medieval village within the parish
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates52.644°N 0.3235°W
Located inNorthamptonshire, England     ( - 1965)
Also located inSoke of Peterborough, England     (1889 - 1965)
Huntingdon and Peterborough, England     (1965 - 1974)
Cambridgeshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoNassaborough Hundred, Northamptonshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Peterborough Rural, Soke of Peterborough, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1974
Peterborough District, Cambridgeshire, Englanddistrict municipality and unitary authority of which it has been part since 1974
City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Englandunitary authority since 1998
source: Family History Library Catalog


the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Etton is a village and civil parish since 1974 in the district municipality and then the unitary authority area of city of Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire, England. The parish had a population of 158 persons in 58 households in the UK census of 2001. (latest census reported in Wikipedia")

The civil parish contains a deserted medieval village named Woodcroft and is the site of Woodcroft Castle, a Royalist holding which fell to Parliamentary troops during the civil war in 1648.

Until 1965 Etton was located in the the Soke of Peterborough. After mergers in 1965 and 1974 the county became part of Cambridgeshire. It was part of the Peterborough Rural District until 1974.

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).

"ETTON, a parish in Peterborough [registration] district, Northampton; near the Helpstone station of the Peterborough and Stamford railway, 6¼ miles NNW of Peterborough. It contains the hamlet of Woodcroft; and its post town is Helpstone, under Market-Deeping. Acres: 1,270. Real property: £2,065. Population: 160. Houses: 30. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value: £398. Patron: Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam. The church is ancient, and was recently repaired."
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Research Tips

  • If you are researching anyone whose lifetime preceded (or even mostly preceded) 1889, the places in which he or she lived are going to be in Northamptonshire rather than the Soke of Peterborough. The Soke of Peterborough was actually a section of Northamptonshire.
  • Original historical documents relating to the Soke of Peterborough are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office in Peterborough.
  • GENUKI does not provide webpages for the Soke of Peterborough and its provision for Northamptonshire is very limited.
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages on Northamptonshire (including the Soke of Peterborough).
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from 1889 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions.
  • Map of Northamptonshire in 1900 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time shows the Soke of Peterborough (not labelled as such) in the top right hand corner.
  • Map of Northamptonshire divisions (including the Soke of Peterborough) in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
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