Holywell cum Needingworth Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

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Holywell cum Needingworth is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Other places in the parish include: Needingworth.

Alternative names: Holywell, Holywell with Needingworth, Needingworth cum Holywell

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1667
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Holywell

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HOLYWELL-CUM-NEEDINGWORTH, a parish, containing the village of Holywell and the large hamlet of Needingworth, in St. Ives district, Huntingdon. Holywell village stands near the river Ouse and the boundary with Cambridge, 1½ mile E by S of St. Ives r. station; and Needingworth hamlet lies nearly 2 miles NE by E of that station, and has a post-office, under St. Ives, Hunts. The name Holywell was taken from a spring which rises in the churchyard, and which, in the Romish times, was much frequented by devotees.

The parish comprises 3, 209 acres. Real property, £7, 189. Pop. in 1851, 915; in 1861, 826. Houses, 193. The manor belongs to the Duke of Manchester. The manor house is now used as a farm house. Numerous fragments of Roman pottery have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £528. Patron, the Duke of Manchester. The church consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower; and was recently restored. A large Baptist chapel was built at Needingworth in 1861. A building, formerly a dissenting chapel, is now a parochial school. Charities, £25.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HOLYWELL (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of St. Ives, hundred of Hurstingstone, county of Huntingdon, 2 miles (E. by S.) from St. Ives; containing, with Needingworth, 959 inhabitants. The river Ouse runs through the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £30. 6. 3.; net income, £528; patron, the Duke of Manchester. The church stands on a hill, at the foot of which is a spring of excellent water, called the Holy Well, formerly held in great veneration.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Needingworth

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEEDINGWORTH, a village in Holywell parish, Huntingdon; 2 miles ENE of St. Ives. It is neatly built; and has a post-office under St. Ives, Huntingdon, a large Baptist chapel, built in 1861, and a parochial school, formerly a dissenting chapel. Sir Ambrose Nicholas, lord-mayor of London in 1576, was a native.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

NEEDINGWORTH, a chapelry, in the parish of Holywell, union of St. Ives, hundred of Hurstingstone, county of Huntingdon, 2¼ miles (E. by N.) from St. Ives. A great part of the village was accidentally destroyed by fire, in September, 1847. The chapel, dedicated to St. James, has been long demolished. There is a place of worship for Baptists.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Huntingdonshire
  • Civil Registration District: St Ives
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of Lincoln and of the Archdeacon in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon
  • Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
  • Rural Deanery: St Ives
  • Poor Law Union: St Ives
  • Hundred: Hurstingstone
  • Province: Canterbury