Place:Little Raveley, Huntingdonshire, England

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NameLittle Raveley
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates52.41°N 0.16°W
Located inHuntingdonshire, England     ( - 1935)
Also located inHuntingdon and Peterborough, England     (1965 - 1974)
Cambridgeshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoWistow, Huntingdonshire, Englandancient parish of which it was part
Hurstingstone Hundred, Huntingdonshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Huntingdon Rural, Huntingdonshire, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1935
Upwood and the Raveleys, Huntingdonshire, Englandcivil parish into which it was merged in 1935
Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, Englanddistrict municipality of which it has been part since 1974
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The parish of Little Raveley has an area of 751 acres of clay land, most of which is agricultural. The land is fairly level, being for the greater part a little more than 100 feet above ordnance datum. Raveley Wood, within the parish, and Wennington Wood, just outside in Abbots Ripton parish, form a considerable stretch of woodland along the southwest border. The village lies on the winding road from Broughton to Great Raveley at a point where a branch road goes westward to Wennington and Abbots Ripton. The village consists only of the church, which is in the northwest angle formed by these roads, and some four farm houses, four cottages and four county council houses. In 1921 the population was only 45 persons.

The small village had a correspondingly small church, the Church of St James, which has an Early English chancel and a 15th-century nave. The church has closed and the building is now used as a private residence. Little Raveley was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Wistow.

In 1935 Little Raveley, along with Great Raveley and Upwood were abolished and the area was merged into one civil parish named Upwood and the Raveleys.

Until 1965 Little Raveley was located in the County of Huntingdonshire. After mergers in 1965 and 1974 the county became part of 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  • Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS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
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