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Long Stanton All Saints, Cambridgeshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.
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LONG STANTON-ALL-SAINTS:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.
[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1835]
(unless otherwise stated)
"LONG STANTON-ALL-SAINTS, a parish in the mmdred of NORTHSTOW, county of CAMBRIDGE, 6 miles (N.W. by N.) from Cambridge, containing 370 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, rated in the king's books at £13. 13. 4r., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Ely, whose predecessors had a palace here, at which Queen Elizabeth was entertained on the day after her visit to the University of Cambridge, in August 1564. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists."
[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2010]