Place:Upwood, Huntingdonshire, England

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NameUpwood
Alt namesUpehudesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 141
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates52.433°N 0.15°W
Located inHuntingdonshire, England     ( - 1935)
Also located inHuntingdon and Peterborough, England     (1965 - 1974)
Cambridgeshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoHurstingstone Hundred, Huntingdonshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Huntingdon Rural, Huntingdonshire, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1974
Upwood and The Raveleys, Huntingdonshire, Englandparish into which it was merged in 1935
Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, Englanddistrict municipality of which it has been part since 1974
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Upwood is a village lying approximately 7 miles (11 km) north of Huntingdon, near Bury. It is now in the civil parish of Upwood and The Raveleys.

The village lies along the High Street which runs parallel to the main road from Great Raveley to Ramsey about 300 yards to the west. The church stands about the middle of the village and there are several 17th-century cottages to the north and south of it.

In September 1917, the Royal Air Force started work on RAF Upwood, a large airfield near the village used by both the RAF and latterly by the United States Air Force.

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

Until 1965 Upwood was located in the County of Huntingdonshire. After mergers in 1965 and 1974 the county became part of Cambridgeshire.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Upwood.

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  • Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS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