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"HARLTON is a parish on the old Roman road to Cambridge, 1½ miles south of Lord's Bridge station on the Bedford and Cambridge line of the London, Midland and Scottish railway and 6 south-west of Cambridge, in the hundred of Wetherley, petty sessional division of Arrington and Melbourn, union of Chesterton, county court district of Cambridge, rural deanery of Barton and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."
"The soil and subsoil are partly clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley and fruit. The area is 1,261 acres ; the population in 1921 was 214."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of Assumption of the Virgin for the years 1614-23, 1737-1969 are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office and are available, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. In addition the 1851 Census for Harlton is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of the Assumption of the Virgin, erected about 1370, is an edifice of clunch in the transition style from Decorated to Perpendicular, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: the reredos is in carved stone with shallow niches: there is a stone rood screen, and an embattled turret, with newel staircase, remains at the north-west angle and has a door opening upon the nave roof: the chancel contains a large piscina of Perpendicular date, and in the north porch is a mutilated stoup : a memorial window was erected in 1867 to the Rev. James Fendall M.A. rector from 1839 to i866: in 1869 an organ was erected by the Rev. 0. Fisher: the church underwent restoration in 1912 : there are 250 sittings, 160 being free. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1636; marriages and burials, 1690."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Harlton, Assumption of the Virgin: Records of baptisms 15585-1629, 1639-1906, marriages 1574-1839, burials 1567-1812 and banns 1755-1812 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Indexed transcripts for baptisms 1585-1629, 1639-95, marriages 1574-1836 and burials 1567-1676 also reside in the Cambridge Record Office. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1866 can be found in the Cambridge University Library.
Primitive Methodist Church: Records exist at the Cambridge Record Office for the Cambridge Primitive Circuit of which Harlton is part.
Land Tax: records were compiled afresh each year and contain the names of owners and occupiers in each parish, but usually there is no address or place name. These records reside in the Cambridge Record Office for the years 1798 (on microfilm), 1829-32 and 1890-1948.
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