Chesterton, Huntingdonshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.

CHESTERTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"CHESTERTON, a parish in the hundred of NORMANCROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, 4 miles (N. N. W.) from Stilton, containing 95 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at & 17. 3. 4., and in the patronage of the Earl of Aboyne. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is principally in the early style of English architecture. Midway between this and Castor is the site of Durobrivie, the fort of which was placed on the Huntingdonshire side of the river Nene; and at Castle field is a large tract, enclosed by a ditch and rampart, with the Roman road Ermin-street running through it obliquely. On making a turnpike road across the site of the ancient city of Durobriva;, several stone coffins, urns, and coins, were dug up j and by the side of the high road near this place, in 1754, was found a coffin of yellowish stone, six feet two inches long, within which were a skeleton, three glass lachrymatories; some coins, and scraps of white wood inscribed with Greek and Roman letters."

"DORNFORD, a hamlet in the parish of CHESTERTON, hundred of NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, 5 miles (N.N.W.) from Stilton. The population is returned with the parish. This was the Durobrivce of Antoninus, implying the passage of the river, and is now, in the same sense, called Dornford, to which the Roman road leads straight from Huntingdon; there are evident traces of the ruined city, besides many ancient coins which have been found on its site."