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LITTLE STAUGHTON (or STAUGHTON PARVA) is a parish and village, on an eminence, 7 miles north-west from St. Neots station on the main line of the Great Northern railway, 10 north from Bedford and 5 south from Kimbolton, on the Hunts border of the county, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Stodden, Sharnbrook petty sessional division, union and county court district of St. Neots, rural deanery of Riseley, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese of Ely.
The soil is mixed; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,744 acres; rateable value, £1,393 ; the population in 1891 was 378.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
The 1851 Census Index for Little Staughton can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 2, Book 1 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
The full 1891 Census of Little Staughton Parish is available as fiche set C14 from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
Church of England
The church, supposed to have been dedicated to St. Margaret, is a building in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, south aisle with south porch and an embattled western tower of four stages, with octagonal spire, relieved by two tiers of dormers and containing. 5 bells: on the north side of the chancel is a canopied sepulchral recess, with quatrefoils on the wall below; and in the south aisle a hagioscope: the whole structure is embattled: there are sittings for 206 persons. The register dates from the year 1598.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Non-conformist
There is a large Baptist chapel, erected in 1766 and restored in 1878 seating 550 persons, with a burying ground attached.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Church of England
The parish record transcripts for St Margaret are available on microfiche for the period 1598-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
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