Great Stukeley, Huntingdonshire

Historical Description

Stukeley, Great, a parish, with a scattered village, in Huntingdonshire, 2 miles NNW of Huntingdon, which is the nearest railway station. It has a post office under Huntingdon; money order and telegraph office, Huntingdon. Acreage, 2875; population, 393. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Torkington family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £96 with residence. The church, which is a building of stone in the Early English style, has a massive tower of the 14th century. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

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

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Great Stukeley 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)