Great Paxton, Huntingdonshire
Historical Description
Paxton, Great, a parish, with a village, in Hunts, on the river Ouse, 2 miles SSW of Offord station on the G.N. main line, and 3 NNE of St Neot's. It lias a post office under St Neot's; money order and telegraph office, Offord D'Arcy. Acreage, 1407; population of the civil parish, 262; of the ecclesiastical, with Little Paxton, St James, and Toseland, The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
The register, partially including Toseland, dates from the year 1583.
The church of the Holy Trinity is an ancient building of stone and pebbles, probably in the Saxon and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a peal of 5 bells, restored, and the treble bell recast, in 1896, at a cost of £150: the fine oak reredos was presented by Mr. Hamer Towgood as a memorial to his three sisters, who died in this parish: the interior was restored in the year 1880, at a cost of about £1,000, under the directon of the late Mr. Ewan Christian and of Mr. G. C. Streatfield, architects, of London: there are 216 sittings. We have transcribed the entry for Great Paxton from the following:
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Huntindonshire is available to browse.
Online maps of Great Paxton are available from a number of sites:
Administration
Ancient County Huntingdonshire Ecclesiastical parish Paxton Holy Trinity Hundred Toseland Poor Law union St. Neots Church Records
Churches
Church of England
The Holy Trinity (parish church)
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