Place:Fletton, Huntingdonshire, England

GENUKI provides the following description of Fletton from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland of 1868 "FLETTON, (or Old Fletton) a parish in the hundred of Norman Cross, county Huntingdon, 1 mile south of Peterborough; its post town and railway station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern lines. The river Nen flows by the parish on the east. It was a part of the demesne of Peterborough Abbey, and after the Dissolution became the property of the Fletton family. The land is nearly evenly divided between arable and pasture. In 1739, while digging a well, shells and wood were met with at a depth of 30 feet. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely, value £292. The church is an ancient edifice dedicated to St. Margaret. The charities, including a small school endowment, produce nearly £50 per annum." In 1894 Fletton was split with its northern urban part joining the city of Peterborough and its southern rural area, re-named Fletton Rural, becoming a civil parish in the newly formed rural district of Fletton (which also included Stanground South and Woodstone) located in Huntingdonshire. In 1905 Fletton Rural District became Old Fletton Urban District and the individual parishes within it were abolished. Fletton as known today is a residential area and electoral ward of the city of Peterborough, which is now in Cambridgeshire.

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• Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS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