Long Stanton All Saints, Cambridgeshire

Historical Description

Long Stanton, a village divided into two parishes, All Saints and St Michael, in Cambridgeshire. The village stands 6 miles NW from Cambridge, and has a station on the G.E.R, 1¼ mile N, and a post office under Cambridge; money order office, Oakington; telegraph office at railway station. Area of All Saints-parish, 1938 acres; population, 376. The living of All Saints is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The Church of All Saints is an edifice built of pebble-stone and rubble, in the Decorated style; consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S transept, S porch, and an embattled western tower and spire; contains an ancient octagonal font, and memorials of the Hattons. The chancel was restored in 1891. There is a Wesleyan chapel in All Saints. There was formerly a palace here belonging to the Bishop of Ely, in which Bishop Cox entertained Queen Elizabeth in 1564.

Administration

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

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Long Stanton All Saints from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stanton, Long (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Long Stanton All Saints 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)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cambridgeshire papers online:

• Cambridge Independent Press
• Cambridge Chronicle and Journal
• Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Cambridgeshire 1575 and 1619 is available online.