ALCONBURY
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
"ALCONBURY, a parish in the hundred of Leightonstone, in the county of
Huntingdon, 4 miles north-west of Huntingdon. It is situated near the British way
called Ermine Street and the Eastern Counties railway, and at the foot of
Alconbury Hill. Alconbury Brook runs through the parish. It has a course of
about 13 miles, rising near Lullington and joining the Ouse at Huntingdon.
There is on the hill an ancient chapel dedicated to St. Anne, which
commands inexpensive prospect. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of
Ely, value with Weston, £162, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of
Westminster. The church is dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul. The Wesleyan
Methodists have a chapel here. A fair is held on the 21st June. Alconbury
Lodge is the principal residence."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
- Monumental Inscriptions from the Parish Churchyard (approximately 125 entries - £3.00 inclusive of postage worldwide) are available from the
Huntingdonshire FHS Bookstall.
- Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the
Huntingdon Records Office.
- The full 1841 Census of Alconbury Parish is available as Fiche Set C81.
- The full 1851 Census of Alconbury Parish is available as Fiche Set C31.
- A Surname Index of the 1881 Census of the Huntingdon Registration District, in which
Alconbury was enumerated (RG11/1602, Folios 29a - 46b), and which took place on 3rd
April 1881, is available as fiche set C3.
- A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Spaldwick sub-District of the
Huntingdon Registration District (RG12/1236) in which Alconbury was enumerated,
and which took place on 5th April 1891, has also been produced by the Huntingdonshire
FHS (as Fiche C8).
- The above mentioned fiche sets are available from the
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- The following Churches have their own websites:
- The church of SS Peter and Paul consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle, south aisle,
west tower and south porch. The walls are of stone rubble, some of them coursed, and the
others mixed with flint; all have stone dressings. The roofs are covered with lead.
- The church is not mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, but the early stones built
into the walls indicate a stone church here in the 12th century. This church probably
had a chancel and an aisled nave, to which a low western tower was added in the 13th
century. In about the middle of this century, the chancel was rebuilt and widened to
the north; soon afterwards the south aisle was rebuilt. The belfry was added to the
tower towards the end of the century and, later still, the spire was added.
- Early in the 14th century, the nave with clearstory was rebuilt to correspond with
the widened chancel. The north aisle was rebuilt around 1330 and, about the same time,
the south porch was built. Towards the end of the 15th century, the walls of the chancel
were heightened and a new roof put on; the aisles were also reroofed at this time. The
nave was reroofed in the 16th century.
- The church was repewed in 1842, and the whole church was restored in 1876. The lower
part of the tower was rebuilt in 1877 when, after everything else was finished, the
belfry and spire were needled up whilst it was being done.
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Church records include those for Alconbury Weston which has never had a church of its own.
- The following are available in the
Huntingdon Records Office.
- Baptisms: 1559-1715, 1741-1806,1806-1812, 1813-1832, 1832-1851, 1851-1875, 1875-1914.
- Banns: 1806-1812, 1868-1890, 1889-1920, 1920-1951.
- Marriages: 1559-1718, 1742-1754, 1754-1805, 1806-1837, 1837-1892, 1892-1944.
- Burials: 1557-1707, 1741-1750, 1761-1806, 1806-1812, 1813-1842, 1842-1928.
- Bishop's Transcripts: 1604-5, 1606 (C & pt M), 1612, 1617-19, 1626, 1660-72, 1674/1675-6,
1679-87, 1690-1, 1693-1702, 1704-7, 1709-19, 1721-50/1751, 1753, 1755, 1758-9, 1762, 1772,
1778, 1783, 1812/1813-17, 1819-23/1824-42/1843-58.
- The
Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes
include marriages from this parish. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical listings in
series: 1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the
Huntingdonshire FHS Bookstall.
- Alconbury was originally in the Registration District of Huntingdon from 1st July 1837. Subsequently, it came under the Spaldwick sub-District, but once again it is now directly under Huntingdon District.
- Acumesberie (xi cent.),
- Alchmundesbiri,
- Alcmundesberi (xii cent.),
- Alkemundesbiy,
- Acmundebiry,
- Aucmundebury,
- Aumondebiry Weston (xiii cent.),
- Alkunbiri,
- Alconbury-cum-Weston (xiv cent.),
- Wode or Wood Weston (xiv-xvii cent.)
- Population in 1801 - 483.
- Population in 1851 - 967.
- Population in 1901 - 543.
- Population in 1951 - 733.
- Population in 1971 - 748.
- Population in 1991 - 1342.
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