Old Weston Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

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Old Weston is a chapelry of Brington Ancient Parish in Huntingdonshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Swithin

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1754
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WESTON (Old), a parish, with a scattered village, in the district of Thrapston and county of Huntingdon; 8 miles N of Kimbolton r. station. It has a post-office under St. Neots. Acres, 2,012. Real property, £2,364. Pop., 426. Houses, 93. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Brington. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower and spire. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WESTON, OLD (St. Swithin), a parish, in the union of Thrapston, hundred of Leightonstone, county of Huntingdon, 7¼ miles (N.) from Kimbolton; containing 390 inhabitants. It comprises 1855 acres, of which 50 are common or waste. The living is united, with that of Bythorn, to the rectory of Brington.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Huntingdonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Thrapston
  • 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: Leightonstone
  • Poor Law Union: Thrapston
  • Hundred: Leightonstone
  • Province: Canterbury