| Name | Wistow |
| Alt names | Wistou | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 141 | | Wystowe (10th century, 12th century) | source: Wikipedia | | Kingestune (id est Wistow 10th century) | source: Wikipedia | | Kingestune (11th century) | source: Wikipedia |
| Type | Chapelry, Ancient parish, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.4°N 0.133°W |
| Located in | Huntingdonshire, England ( - 1965) |
| Also located in | Huntingdon and Peterborough, England (1965 - 1974) | | Cambridgeshire, England (1974 - ) |
| See also | Hurstingstone Hundred, Huntingdonshire, England | hundred in which it was located | | St. Ives 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 |
Wistow is a small, rural village near Warboys south of Ramsey. Wistow is a small, rural village located in a small secluded valley off the Ramsey to St. Ives road, through which runs Bury Brook. It is a farming community that has grown up around the central features of its church and manor house. Its population at the 2011 UK census was 522.
Wistow was a chapelry which evolved into an ancient parish and then, in the 19th century, into a civil parish. It had three subsidiary chapelries: Bury, Little Raveley and Upwood.
Until 1965 Wistow was located in the County of Huntingdonshire. After mergers in 1965 and 1974 the county became part of Cambridgeshire. It was part of the St Ives Rural District until 1974 and is now in the Huntingdonshire administrative district of Cambridgeshire.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Wistow.
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- Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS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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