Place:Stanground, Huntingdonshire, England

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Stanground from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"STANDGROUND, a parish, with a village, in the [registration] district of Peterborough and counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge; on the river Nen, 1¼ mile SE of Peterborough [railway] station. It includes Farcett chapelry; has a post-office under Peterborough; and comprises 4,377 acres in [Huntingdonshire], and 1,321 in [Isle of Ely]. Real property: £15,298. Population: 1,839. Houses: 387. The property is subdivided. The Manor House and Gazley Hall are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value: £1,220. Patron: Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church is good, and has a lofty spire. There are a Baptist chapel, an endowed school with £22 a year, and charities £12."

the text in this section is based partly on the article Stanground] in Wikipedia amongst others Situated south of the River Nene, on relatively high ground overlooking The Fens, the Stanground area was originally part of Norman Cross Hundred in the northernmost section of Huntingdonshire, England. The City of Peterborough was immediately across the parish boundary in the Soke of Peterborough section of the county of Northamptonshire. When the Local Government Act, 1894 came into effect the civil parish of Stanground was partly in the Fletton Rural District of Huntingdon and Peterborough and partly in the Thorney Rural District of the Isle of Ely. No change was made to the geographical coverage of the parish at that time although it was the only civil parish in England contained partly in two administrative counties. In 1905 the parish was separated into Stanground South in Huntingdon and Peterborough and Stanground North in the Isle of Ely. At the same time Fletton Rural District was wound up and its three parishes of Woodstone, Fletton and Stanground South were re-formed into the urban district of Old Fletton. This solved the problem of Stanground being in two counties. In 1965, the Soke of Peterborough was removed from Northamptonshire and amalgamated with Huntingdonshire as a new county named Huntingdon and Peterborough. At the same time Cambridgeshire absorbed the Isle of Ely under the name Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. But Thorney Rural District, which had been part of the Isle of Ely, transferred to Huntingdon and Peterborough. In 1974 the whole of the county of Huntingdon and Peterborough was merged with Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely to make an expanded county of Cambridgeshire. The two cities of Peterborough and Cambridge both became unitary authorities administratively but were both considered to be within the non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire. Farcet was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Stanground.

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