Chesterton Registration District
Acres, 76,728. Poor-rates in 1862, £13,600. Pop. in 1841, 21,599; in 1861, 25,083. Houses, 5,464.
Marriages in 1860, 182; births, 831, of which 37 were illegitimate; deaths, 457, of which 165 were at ages under 5 years, and 24 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,921; births, 8,428; deaths, 5,027.
The places of worship in 1851 were 38 of the Church of England, with 7,261 sittings; 3 of Independents, with 820 s.; 22 of Baptists, with 4,506 s.; 7 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 1,140 s.; 2 of Primitive Methodists, with 194 s.; and 2 undefined, with 190 s.
The schools were 46 public day schools, with 2,833 scholars; 53 private day schools, with 1,153 s.; 45 Sunday schools, with 3,594 s.; and 4 evening schools for adults, with 66 s.
Table of Contents
Places within Chesterton District
Fulbourn Sub-district
- Cherry Hinton
- Chesterton
- Fen-Ditton
- Fulbourn All Saints
- Great Wilbraham
- Horningsea
- Little Wilbraham
- Milton
- St. Vigors
- Stow-cum-Quy
- Teversham
Great Shelford Sub-district
The sub-district contains 14 parishes. Acres, 21,580. Pop., 7,157. Houses, 1,539.
- Barton
- Comberton
- Coton
- Grantchester
- Great Shelford
- Harleton
- Harston
- Haslingfield
- Hauxton
- Little Shelford
- Madingley
- Newton
- Stapleford
- Trumpington
Willingham Sub-district
- Childerley
- Cottenham
- Dry-Drayton
- Girton
- Histon
- Impington
- Landbeach
- Long-Stanton All Saints
- Long-Stanton St. Michael
- Oakington
- Rampton
- Water-beach
- Willingham
Sources
- The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].