Litlington

• 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 Publications list (search)

• The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridgeshire Archives. In addition the 1851 Census for Litlington is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Publications list (search)
• Abstract of Population 1821 - Census Statistical Returns 1822 - Armingford Hundred - Littlington Parish - Straw platting is mentioned as an unprofitable employment at Littlington.

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • St. Catherine's Church, Litlington (view 1).
  • St. Catherine's Church, Litlington (view 2).
  • The Congregational Church, Litlington.
• The following Churches have their own websites:
  • St. Catherine's Church, Litlington

• "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]

• Church of England
  • Litlington, St. Catharine: Records of baptisms 1642, 1654-1946, marriages 1673-1955, burials 1672-1877 and banns 1754-1812, 1823-1908 reside in the Cambridgeshire Archives. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1685, 1711-1864 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Indexed transcripts exist in the Cambridgeshire Archives 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 Publications list (search)

• "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]

• A transcript of the Litlington parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1835 Topographical Dictionary of England,
• A transcript of the Litlington parish entries from 1929 Kellys Directory of Cambridgeshire

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Litlington to another place.

• "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]

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL312426 (Lat/Lon: 52.066242, -0.087428), Litlington which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• The War Memorial has been transcribed and the men researched.

• 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 Cambridgeshire Archives for the years 1694, 1759-63, 1790-1846 and 1865-1948.