Spaldwick Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

Spaldwick is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. James

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1604
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1688

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Protestant Dissenters.

Adjacent Parishes

• Kimbolton
• Leighton Bromswold
• Little Catworth
• Stow Longa
• Barham
• Easton
• Ellington
• Woolley

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SPALDWICK, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district and county of Huntingdon. The village stands 7 miles W by N of Huntingdon r. station, and has a post-office under St. Neots. The parish comprises 1,690 acres. Real property, £2,530. Pop., 470. Houses, 107. The manor belongs to the Duke of Manchester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £230. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church is a fine edifice, with tower and lofty spire. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £8.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

SPALDWICK (St. James), a parish, in the hundred of Leightonstone, union and county of Huntingdon, 7 miles (W. by N.) from Huntingdon; containing 415 inhabitants.

The parish is situated on the road from Cambridge to Northampton, and comprises 1470 acres. The soil is a strong clayey loam, mixed in some parts with gravel, and produces every kind of grain of the best quality, and remarkably sweet herbage. Fairs are held on the Wednesday before Whit-Sunday and on November 28th, for sheep and cattle of all sorts, and for pedlery.

The living is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the Bishop of Ely, valued in the king’s books at £12. 0. 10.; net income, £96; appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The tithes were commuted for land in 1774; there is a glebe-house, and the glebe contains about 40 acres. The church, erected about 1300, has a northern entrance of Norman architecture. There are places of worship for Baptists and Independents.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

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Administration

• County: Huntingdonshire
• Civil Registration District: Huntingdon
• 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: Pre-1839 – None, Post-1838 – Leightonstone
• Poor Law Union: Huntingdon
• Hundred: Leightonstone
• Province: Canterbury