Southoe (St. Leonard)
SOUTHOE (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of St. Neot's, hundred of Toseland, county of Huntingdon, 3¼ miles (N. by W.) from St. Neot's; containing 297 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage endowed with the rectorial tithes, with the living of Hail-Weston annexed, and valued in the king's books at £14. 2. 3½.; net income, £288; patron and incumbent, the Rev. J. Standly. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment, in 1797, under an inclosure act. There are some mineral springs in the parish. Bishop Chadderton was interred here.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.
