A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
STILTON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district of Peterborough and county of Huntingdon. The village stands on Ermine-street, 3 miles NW by W of Holme r. station, and 7 SSW of Peterborough; was once a market-town; gives name to the finest English cheese, made chiefly in Leicestershire; is a polling place; and has a post-office‡ under Peterborough. The parish comprises 1,620 acres. Real property, £3,992. Pop., 724. Houses, 181. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £500.& Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church was restored in 1857. There are two Wesleyan chapels, a national school, six alms houses built in 1868, and other charities £12.—The sub-district contains 14 parishes and a chapelry. Acres, 28,884. Pop., 5,797. Houses, 1,208.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Stilton CP/AP Stilton SubD Huntingdonshire AncC |
| Place: | Stilton |
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