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| Name | Spaldwick |
| Type | Ancient parish, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.33°N 0.33°W |
| Located in | Huntingdonshire, England ( - 1965) |
| Also located in | Huntingdon and Peterborough, England (1965 - 1974) | | Cambridgeshire, England (1974 - ) |
| See also | Leightonstone Hundred, Huntingdonshire, England | hundred in which it was located | | Huntingdon Rural, Huntingdonshire, England | rural district in which it was located until 1974 | | Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England | district municipality of which it has been a part since 1974 |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Spaldwick is a village which was located in the English county of Huntingdonshire until 1965. After two mergers of counties which occurred in 1965 and 1974, Spaldwick is now in the Huntingdonshire District of Cambridgeshire, England.
Spaldwick is located near Catworth west of Huntingdon.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Spaldwick from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "SPALDWICK, a village, a parish, and a [registration] sub-district, in the district and county of Huntingdon. The village stands 7 miles W by N of Huntingdon [railway] station, and has a post-office under St. Neots. The parish comprises 1,690 acres. Real property: £2,530. Population: 470. Houses: 107. The manor belongs to the Duke of Manchester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value: £230. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church is a fine edifice, with tower and lofty spire. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £8.-- The [registration] sub-district contains ten parishes. Acres: 20,140. Population: 3,555. Houses: 752."
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- Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS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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