Place:Little Paxton, Huntingdonshire, England

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NameLittle Paxton
Alt namesPachstonesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 141
Parchestunesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 141
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates52.25°N 0.267°W
Located inHuntingdonshire, England     ( - 1965)
Also located inHuntingdon and Peterborough, England     (1965 - 1974)
Cambridgeshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoGreat Paxton, Huntingdonshire, Englandancient parish of which it was part
Toseland Hundred, Huntingdonshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
St Neots Rural, Huntingdonshire, Englandrural district in which it was located until 1974
Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, Englanddistrict municipality of which it has been a part since 1974
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Little Paxtonis 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.

Little Paxton is located 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Huntingdon and 1.7 miles (2.7 km) north of St. Neots. The parish covers an area of 1,150 acres (470 hectares). Curiously, the village of Little Paxton is much larger than the neighbouring village of Great Paxton. In the UK census of 2011 it had a population of 3,244 which included that of the neighbouring parish of Southoe which had less that 100 inhabitants.

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).

"PAXTON (Little), a parish, with a village, in St. Neots [registration] district, Hunts; on the river Ouse, 1¾ mile N by W of St. Neots [railway] station. It has a post-office under Huntingdon. Acres: 2,040. Real property: £2,982. Population: 247. Houses: 51. The manor belongs to Lord Overstone. Paxton Park is the seat of Sir W. Booth, Bart.; and Paxton Hall, of R. A. Reynolds, Esq. There are extensive paper mills. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Great Paxton, in the diocese of Ely. The church consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains memorials of the Reynoldses, and a monument to T. Throckmorton, Esq. There are a national school, and charities £36.

Little Paxton was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Great Paxton until it became a civil parish in 1866. Parish register entries for Little Paxton are likely to be under Great Paxton.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Little Paxton.

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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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