Place:Conington All Saints, Huntingdonshire, England

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NameConington All Saints
Alt namesConningtonsource: incorrect spelling
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates52.458°N 0.27°W
Located inHuntingdonshire, England     ( - 1965)
Also located inHuntingdon and Peterborough, England     (1965 - 1974)
Cambridgeshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoNorman Cross Hundred, Huntingdonshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Huntingdon Rural, Huntingdonshire, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1974
Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, Englanddistrict municipality of which it has been part since 1974
NOTE:Conington All Saints, is located in northwestern Huntingdonshire, quite close to Peterborough. There is another parish named Conington St. Mary which was always in Cambridgeshire, but is on the border with Huntingdonshire. Do not confuse the two.


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Conington All Saints is an English village and civil parish located until 1974 in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Conington All Saints lies about 10 km (6 miles) south of Peterborough and 3 km (2 miles) north of Sawtry. It is within earshot of the A1(M), part of the Great North Road, which follows the course of the Roman Ermine Street. When Huntingdonshire was merged into Cambridgeshire, the whole former county became the non-metropolitan Huntingdonshire District.

The Cotton Baronetcy of Conington was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for the antiquary Robert Bruce Cotton (1570–1631), who also represented five constituencies in the House of Commons. The novelist, expurgator and editor Henrietta Maria Bowdler was born in Conington in 1750.

In the Second World War, Conington All Saints was located next to Royal Air Force Station Glatton. RAF Glatton was constructed to Class "A" standards to support heavy bombers in 1943, as it was to be used by the US Army Air Forces. The 457th Bomb Group operated from RAF Glatton from January 1944 until 20 April 1945, when it completed its 237th and last combat mission at the conclusion of the war. In the local church is a memorial to the 457th Bomb Group.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Conington, Huntingdonshire.

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  • Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS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