Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOUTHOE

SOUTHOE, a parish in St. Neots district, Hunts; 2¾ miles NNW of St. Neots r. station. Post town, Buckden, under Huntingdon. Acres, 1,860. Real property, £2,606. Pop., 281. Houses, 61. The manor belonged formerly to the Lovetotes, John of Gaunt, and the Pickerings; and belongs now to Lord Overstone. The living is a vicarage, united with Hail-Weston, in the diocese of Ely. Value, £288.* Patron, the Rev. J. R. Moorsom. The church is ancient, and has a Norman door. There is a national school.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Southoe CP/AP       Huntingdonshire AncC
Place: Southoe

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