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"HASLINGFIELD is a parish, bounded on the east by the river Cam, 2 miles north from Harston station on the Hitchin and Cambridge branch of the London and North Eastern railway and 5½ south-west-by-south from 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. Lord's Bridge station on the Cambridge, Bedford and Bletchley line of the London, Midland and Scottish railway is in the north part of the parish."
"A portion of the Manor House remains, with the moat. The soil is chalky and clay; subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops are fruit. wheat, beans and oats. The area is 2,564 acres of land and 9 of water; the population la 1921 was 590."
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions of All Saints inside the church for the years 1612-1947 and in the churchyard for the years 1744-1988 are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office. The transcriptions of the monumental inscriptions are available, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall. available
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. In addition the 1851 Census for Haslingfield is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of All Saints is a spacious edifice of clunch and stone in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches and a fine embattled western tower, erected stout 1460, with octagonal pinnacles and a low spire and containing a clock and 5 bells the tower was restored in 1898 at a cost of £700. and again in 1900 : the chancel dates from about 1300, and its windows, as well as those in the aisles, retain some ancient glass: the aisle roofs are very fine Early Decorated, with elaborate mouldings, flowing tracery and rich foliaged bosses: the benches are all of carved oak : the chancel and nave were restored in 1875-9, when two stained windows and a vestry and organ chamber were added and the chancel roof decorated, at a cost of £1,650 : in the chancel are four monuments to the Wendy family: the church affords about 700 sittings, 500 of which are free. The register dates from the year 1709. "
"There is a Primitive Methodist chapel here."
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
Haslingfield, All Saints: Records of baptisms 1709-1853, marriages 1710-1968, burials 1710-1961, banns for 1754-1969 reside in the Cambridge Record Office.The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1641 and 1661-1873 can be found in the Cambridge University Library, indexed transcripts for the years 1599-1642 and 1661-1711 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Indexes to transcripts exist in Cambridge Record Office for baptisms 1709-1909, marriages 1701-1836, 1837-1909, and burials 1709-1873, 1874-1929. The parish records 1599-1996 are available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
Primitive Methodist Church: Records exist for the Cambridge Primitive and Cambridge Primitive Second Circuits of which Haslingfield 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 1880-1948.
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