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"LITLINGTON is a parish, about 4 miles north-east from Ashwell station on the Hitchin, Royston and Cambridge line of the London and North Eastern railway, 4 north-west from Royston, in the hundred of Armingford, petty sessional division of Arrington and Melbourn, union and county court district of Royston, rural deanery of Shingay and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."
"The soil is clayey and chalk, and the subsoil is clay and clunch. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, peas and turnips. The area is 2,172 acres; the population in 1921 was 413."
[Kellys Directory - Cambridgeshire 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions for St. Catharine churchyard 1790-1950 are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office. The Monumental Inscriptions are available 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 Litlington is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
Abstract of Population 1821 - Census Statistical Returns 1822 - Armingford Hundred - Littlington Parish - Straw platting is mentioned as an unprofitable employment at Littlington.
"The church of St Catharine is a fine specimen of the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: in the church is a gravestone with an inscription in Norman French, and a memorial to Roger Stoughton, alderman of London, ob. 1690: the church has been restored at a cost or £2,000, and affords 220 sittings. In the churchyard is a Celtic cross of Portland stone, erected n 1919 as a memorial to the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. The register dates from the year 1652."
"There is a Congregational chapel, seating about 300 persons."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Litlington, St. Catharine: Records of baptisms 1642, 1654-1946, marriages 1673-1955, burials 1672-1877 and banns 1754-1812, 1823-1908 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1685, 1711-1864 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Indexed transcripts exist in the Cambridge Record Office for baptisms and burials 1599-1845 and marriages 1599-1643, 1654, 1664 and 1673-1845. The parish register transcripts for the years 1599-1845 are available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The remains of a large Roman cemetery, containing sepulchral urns and other funeral vessels, were discovered in 1828; a great part of the articles found were at first deposited in Clare College Library, but are now in the Cambridge Geological Museum."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
"George Massop esq. is lord of the manor of Huntingfield, and the trustees of the late Thomas Graham Foster Pigott esq. (d. 1907) hold the manor of Dovedales."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
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 1694, 1759-63, 1790-1846 and 1865-1948.
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