Old Weston, Huntingdonshire

Historical Description

Weston, Old, a parish, with a scattered village, in Huntingdonshire, 4½ miles N of Kimbolton station on the Kettering and Cambridge branch of the M.R. It has a post office under Huntingdon; money order office, Catworth; telegraph office, Kimbolton. Acreage, 2051; population, 245. The living is a curacy annexed to Brington. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower with an octagonal broach spire. 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 Old Weston from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Weston, Old (St. Swithin))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Old Weston 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)