Place:Leightonstone Hundred, Huntingdonshire, England

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NameLeightonstone Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inHuntingdonshire, England
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Between Anglo-Saxon times and the nineteenth century Huntingdonshire was divided for administrative purposes into 4 hundreds, plus the borough of Huntingdon. Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters.

Huntingdonshire was divided into four roughly equally sized hundreds: Norman Cross, Leightonstone, Hurstingstone, and Toseland, which respectively fill the northern, western, eastern and southern quarters of the county.

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

"LEIGHTONSTONE, a hundred in Huntingdonshire; bounded by the counties of Bedford and Northampton, and by the hundreds of Normancross, Hurstingstone, and Toseland; and containing the parish of Alconbury, twenty-nine other parishes, and parts of three others. Acres: 53,696. Population in 1851: 10,890; in 186l: 10,789. Houses: 2,333."
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List of Parishes with chapelries and townships

Ancient Parish Parish Status Subsidiary Places Subsidiary Place Status Notes
Alconbury ancient parish, civil parish
Alconbury Weston extra parochial area, civil parish
Brampton ancient parish, civil parish
Brington ancient parish, civil parish Old Weston chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish
Buckworth ancient parish, civil parish
Catworth civil parish
Coppingford ancient parish, civil parish
Covington ancient parish, civil parish
Easton ancient parish, civil parish
Ellington ancient parish, civil parish
Grafham ancient parish, civil parish
Great Catworth ancient parish, civil parish
Great Gidding ancient parish, civil parish
Hamerton ancient parish, civil parish
Keyston ancient parish, civil parish
Kimbolton ancient parish, civil parish
Leighton ancient parish, civil parish
Little Gidding ancient parish, civil parish
Luddington ancient parish, civil parish
Molesworth ancient parish, civil parish
Spaldwick ancient parish, civil parish
Steeple Gidding ancient parish, civil parish
Stow Longa ancient parish, civil parish Barham chapelry, civil parish
Stow Longa ancient parish, civil parish Little Catworth chapelry, civil parish
Swineshead ancient parish, civil parish transferred to Bedfordshire in 1888
Thurning ancient parish, civil parish ended 1895
Upton ancient parish, civil parish
Winwick ancient parish, civil parish
Woolley ancient parish, civil parish

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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