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Acumesberie (xi cent.), Alchmundesbiri, Alcmundesberi (xii cent.), Alkemundesbiy, Acmundebiry, Aucmundebury, Aumondebiry Weston (xiii cent.), Alkunbiri, Alconbury-cum-Weston (xiv cent.), Wode or Wood Weston (xiv-xvii cent.).
(See also Alconbury). Alconbury-cum-Weston was described as one 'vill' in 1316 and is still one ecclesiastical parish. More often referred to as Alconbury with Weston, or as the two separate places of Alconbury and Alconbury Weston, which remain separate for civil purposes. About half the whole area of the two civil parishes is arable and the rest pasture. The soil is clay and the principle crops are cereal and beans. The Alconbury Brook, a tributary of the River Ouse, runs from the north-west to the south-east, and then turning south-west forms the southern boundary. The land rises from the brook, where it is about 50 ft. above sea-level to about 164 ft. at Alconbury Hill and Common Farm on the north-east side.
Alconbury Weston is about three-quaters of a mile north-west of Alconbury village on a road running west. There is no chuch in this village, and the occupants used Alconbury for this purpose. The houses were originally built along both sides of the road, and the Alconbury Brook runs besides the road running through the village. The Great North Road passed over the brook at the south-east end of the village by a brick bridge, and a footpath crosses the brook at the north-west end by a bridge with a timber superstructure, the central pier and the abutments of which are said to be built of stone from Copmanford church. A Cross is mentioned here in 1278-9.
A weekly market on Thursday and a yearly fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of St John the Baptist and the six days following, was granted to John de Segrave and his heirs for the Manor of Wood Weston (Alconbury Weston) in 1304. This fair was later transferred to Alconbury. The fair was abolished in 1872 when it was said to have been held for "pedlars' wares"; the remembrance of it still survives in the village feast on 24th June as it is still called 'the Fair'.
In Hermitage Wood, east of Alconbury Weston, is a moated site; whether this has any relation to the hermitage which existed at Alconbury Weston in the 14th century, is uncertain. It has been said that there was a chapel dedicated to St Anne at Alconbury Hill, but no evidence of it has been found.
There was an inclosure award made to Alconbury-cum-Weston in 1791.
There are no monumental inscriptions for this parish. (Burials took place in Alconbury).
Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891)is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The full 1841 Census of Alconbury Weston Parish is available as Fiche Set C81.
The full 1851 Census of Alconbury Weston Parish is available as Fiche Set C31.
A Surname Index of the 1881 Census of the Huntingdon Registration District, in which Alconbury Weston was enumerated (RG11/1602, Folios 17a - 25b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available as fiche set C3.
A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Spaldwick sub-District of the Huntingdon Registration District (RG12/1236) in which Alconbury Weston was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, has also been produced by the Huntingdonshire FHS (as Fiche C8).
The fiche sets mentioned above are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
There was no church in Alconbury Weston. The parishioners used Alconbury church for this purpose.
Church records for this parish were kept by Alconbury. See Alconbury. These are available in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes include marriages from Alconbury. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical listings in series: 1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS Bookstall.
Alconbury Weston was originally in the Registration District of Huntingdon from 1st July 1837. Subsequently, it came under the Spaldwick sub-District, but once again it is now directly under Huntingdon District.
A GENWEB page on Alconbury Weston is available.
An old map of the parish of Alconbury Weston in the 19th century is available.
Population in 1801 - 281.
Population in 1851 - 510.
Population in 1901
- 293.
Population in 1951 - 254.
Population in 1971 - 476.
Population
in 1991 - 753.
The parish of Alconbury Weston was in the Huntingdon Union for Poor Law
administration.
Births and Deaths registered in the Huntingdon Union
Workhouse (1838 - 1949) are available, as fiche set D10 from the
Huntingdonshire FHS Bookstall.
The civil parish of Alconbury Weston occupies some 1735 acres of land. (See Alconbury page for the area of that civil parish).
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