Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STAUGHTON (Great)

STAUGHTON (Great), a parish, with several hamlets, in St. Neots district, Hunts; 3 miles SE of Kimbolton r. station. It has a post-office under St. Neots. Acres, 5,940. Real property, £8,900. Pop., 1,312. Houses, 297. The property is much subdivided. S. House and Gaines Hall are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £500.* Patron, St. John's College, Oxford. The church is ancient but good. There are two Baptist chapels, a Wesleyan chapel, a parochial school, and charities £49.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish, with several hamlets"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Great Staughton CP/AP
Place names: GREAT STAUGHTON     |     STAUGHTON     |     STAUGHTON GREAT
Place: Great Staughton

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