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Stibbington (St. John the Baptist)

STIBBINGTON (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Stamford, hundred of Norman-Cross, county of Huntingdon, 1 mile (E. by S.) from Wansford; containing, with Sibson hamlet, 697 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the navigable river Nene, and on the great north road; and comprises good arable and pasture land, incumbent on a layer of gravel. There are numerous quarries, supplying a coarse but durable freestone which is used for building; and about 50 hands are employed at a paper-mill. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £7. 13. 6½.; net income, £431; patron, the Duke of Bedford: the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1807. The church is in the Norman style. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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