FEN-STANTON
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
"FEN-STANTON, a parish in the hundred of Toseland, county Huntingdon, 2
miles south of St. Ive's, its post town and railway station on the Great
Eastern line. It is situated on the Cambridge and Huntingdon main road, and
includes the hamlet of Hilton. The St. Ive's gasworks are in this parish.
There is a clock in the main street of the town believed to be about 200
years old. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Ely, value with the
curacy of Hilton annexed, £320, in the patronage of Trinity Hall,
Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The Baptists have two
chapels, and there are National and British schools for both sexes. The
Rev. L. R. Brown is lord of the manor."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
- Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the
Huntingdon Records Office.
- The full 1841 Census of Fenstanton Parish is available as fiche set C93.
- The full 1851 Census of Fenstanton Parish is available as fiche set C43.
- A surname index of the 1881 Census of the St. Ives Registration District, in which
Fen Stanton was enumerated (RG11/1608, Folios 81a - 106b), and which took place on
3rd April 1881, is available as fiche set C4.
- A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the St. Ives Registration District
(RG12/1234) in which Fenstanton parish was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891.
- 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:
- OS Grid Square TL 320687.
- The church of St Peter and St Paul consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle,
south aisle, west tower and south porch. The walls are of rubble with stone
dressings and the roofs are covered with tiles, slates and lead.
- Although mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, nothing remains of this early
church except a few stones reused in the walling. There was evidently a rebuilding
in the first half of the 13th century, of which period are the responds of the
chancel arch, the plinth of the west respond of the north arcade, and the north,
south and parts of the east arches of the tower; apparently, a south aisle and
porch were also built.
- Early in the 14th century, the south aisle and porch were were rebuilt and in
1345-52 the then Rector, William Longthorne, rebuilt the chancel, whilst at the
extreme end of the century, the tower was practically rebuilt and furnished with
a spire. In the next century, another reconstruction involved the rebuilding of
the nave arcades with a clearstory and roof above them, the enlargement of the
chancel and tower arches, building of strong buttresses to stiffen the tower piers.
Finally, in about 1500, the north aisle was rebuilt, new windows were inserted in
the south aisle and new roofs were added to the aisles and porch.
- The galleries were pulled down and the church generally restored in 1860.
- These are available in the
Huntingdon Records Office.
- Baptisms: 1611?-1739/40, 1740-1800, 1800-1813, 1813-1843, 1843-1874, 1874-1938.
- Banns: 1754-1811, 1811-1813, 1823-1955, 1955-1978.
- Marriages: 1611?-1739, 1740-1754, 1754-1811, 1811-1813, 1837-1942, 1942-1958, 1958-1971, 1971-1982.
- Burials: 1611?-1739/40, 1740-1800, 1800-1812, 1813-1853, 1853-1924.
- Bishop's Transcripts: 1604-5, 1608, 1610, 1612, 1617-19, 1625/1669-1677, 1683-5,
1693, 1699, 1701-2, 1707-11, 1718, 1720, 1722-39, 1741-3, 1745-53, 1755-62/1763-96,
1798-1813, 1813-23, 1825-35, 1837, 1840-3, 1845-54.
- 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
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- Fen Stanton was in the St Ives Registration District from 1st July 1837. This later became a sub-District of Huntingdon until 31st March 1997, since when it has been in the Huntingdon Registration District.
-
The war memorial with detailed information about those who fell is available on the Roll of Honour site for Huntingdonshire.
- Stantum,
- Stantone (xi cent.),
- Staunton,
- Santon Gisbrit de Gant (xiii cent.),
- Fenstanton,
- Fennystanton (xiv cent.),
- Fenstanton (xx cent.).
- The parish of Fen Stanton was in the St Ives Union for Poor Law administration.
- Births and deaths registered in the St Ives Union Workhouse (1836 - 1913) are available,
as fiche set D9, from the
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- Population in 1801 - 704
- Population in 1851 - 1070
- Population in 1901 - 886
- Population in 1951 - 972
- Population in 1971 - 1659
- Population in 1991 - 2650
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