Offord D’Arcy Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

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Offord D’Arcy is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Alternative names: Offord Darcey, Offord Darcy

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1563
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

OFFORD-DARCY, a village and a parish in St. Neots district, Huntingdon. The village stands on the river Ouse and on the Great Northern railway, ½ a mile S of Offord r. station, and 4½ NNE of St. Neots. The parish comprises 1,827 acres; and its post town is Buckden, under Huntingdon. Real property, £2, 374 Pop., 437. Houses, 89. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged formerly to the Nailours; and the manor-house is now a farm-house. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £400. Patron, G. Thornhill, Esq. The church is of the 12th century; was restored in 1861, at a cost of £1, 100; and contains a piscina, a mutilated brass of 1377, two other brasses, and monuments of the Nailours. There is a Baptist chapel.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

OFFORD-DARCY (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of St. Neot’s, hundred of Toseland, county of Huntingdon, 4 miles (N. N. E.) from St. Neot’s; containing 306 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the river Ouse, about 2 miles from which, on the east, and in a parallel line, runs the great north road. It comprises 1700 acres. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £15. 2. 8½., and in the gift of G. Thornhill, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £42. 12., and the glebe comprises 42 acres.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Huntingdonshire
  • Civil Registration District: St Neots
  • 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 Neots
  • Poor Law Union: St Neots
  • Hundred: Toseland
  • Province: Canterbury