Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire

Historical Description

Staughton, Great, a village and a parish, with the hamlets of Agden Green, Dillington, Staughton Moor, and West Perry, in Hunts, 5 miles NNW from St Neots station on the G.N.R. main line. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under St Neots. Acreage, 6407; population, 957. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. Staughton House is a good country mansion surrounded by a park of over 500 acres, and Gaynes Hall is a handsome mansion standing in a well-wooded park. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £370 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is an embattled building of cobble stones in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel with chapel and vestry, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower. It has some interesting tombs and monuments. There is a Baptist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Great Staughton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Staughton, Great (St. Andrew))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Huntindonshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Great Staughton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)