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| Name | Stow Longa |
| Alt names | Stow | source: 19th century name of parish |
| Type | Ancient parish, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.33°N 0.37°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 | | St. Neots Rural, Huntingdonshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1894-1974 | | Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England | district municipality of which it has been part since 1974 |
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Stow Longa is a village and civil parish to the east of the parish of Tilbrook, west of the town of Huntingdon and two miles north of Kimbolton. Stow Longa's original name was Stow or Long Stow.
Stow was also thought to have been the name of the pre-Conquest estate, which, in the medieval period, was split between two parishes: one, "Over Stow" or "Upper Stow", the western part, which belonged to the Kimbolton parish, and the other, "Estou" (also "Nether Stow" or "Long Stow"), the eastern part, which was part of the soke of Spaldwick.
Until 1965 Stow Longa was located in St. Neots Rural District in Huntingdonshire. After mergers in 1965 and 1974 the county became part of Cambridgeshire.
NOTE: The map was drawn following a map on which the name of the parish was Stow.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Stow Longa.
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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- Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS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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