Woolley Huntingdonshire Family History Guide
Woolley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.
Alternative names: Wooley
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1576
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include: Baptist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WOOLLEY, a parish in the district and county of Huntingdon; 6 miles WNW of Huntingdon r. station. Post town, Kimbolton. Acres, 1,420. Real property, £983. Pop., 114. Houses, 20. The manor belongs to J. Cockerell, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £130. Patron, J. Cockerell, Esq. The church was recently in bad condition.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WOOLLEY (St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Leightonstone, union and county of Huntingdon, 5 miles (N. E. by N.) from Kimbolton; containing 79 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £9. 9. 2., and in the gift of J. Cockerell, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £110, and the glebe contains 2 acres. The church has a western tower, crowned with a handsome cupola.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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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: Leightonstone
- Poor Law Union: Huntingdon
- Hundred: Leightonstone
- Province: Canterbury