Little Staughton Bedfordshire Family History Guide
Little Staughton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.
Status: Ancient Parish
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1598
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
Nonconformists include: Baptists
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STAUGHTON (Little), a parish, with a village, in the district of St. Neots and county of Bedford; 4½ miles S by E of Kimbolton r. station. Post town, St. Neots.
Acres, 1,660. Real property, £2,286. Pop., 572. Houses, 135. The property is subdivided.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £400. Patron, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church is later English.
There are a Baptist chapel, and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Staughton (Little) 10 miles N.W. Bedford. P. 485.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
STAUGHTON, LITTLE (All Saints), a parish, in the union of St. Neot’s, hundred of Stodden, county of Bedford, 4 miles (S. by E.) from Kimbolton; containing 485 inhabitants. It comprises about 1200 acres, of which 800 are arable.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £13. 8. 4.; net income, £200; patrons, the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1801.
There is a place of worship for Baptists.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: St Neots
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Eaton
- Poor Law Union: St Neots
- Hundred: Stodden
- Province: Canterbury