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Copemaneford (xi cent.), Coppeneford (xii cent.), Copmanford (xii-xix cent.), Copmanesford, Coupmanneford (xii cent.), Copemandesford (xiv cent.), Copyngford (xvi cent.).
The land in the parish is clay, which includes some woodland; the remainder is about half and half arable and pasture. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans.
From the Mile Brook, a tributary of the Alconbury Brook on the west side of the parish, the land is about 80 ft. above sea level but it rises to about 170 ft. in the village. The Ermine Street for a short distance forms the eastern boundary of the parish. It is interesting to note that in 1242, John de Neville, Baliff of the King's Forests, was ordered to cause a cutting (trenchia) to be made through Sawtry Wood, Coppingford Wood and Upton Wood of sufficient width for the security of travellers as far as the road there extended. It would seem probable that the road referred to was Ermine Street. The only other road in the area was Bullock Road which, also for a short distance, forms the parish boundary, but this is unlikely to have been the subject of the order.
About a mile west of Ermine Street, on high land where a by-road from Upton (called Coppingford Lane) meets a by-road from Hamerton to Sawtry, stands the small village of Coppingford. The moated site of the manor house, probably built by the Copmanford family about 1200, is on the west side of the village. The Church of All Hallows (All Saints), which was destroyed before 1707, is supposed to have stood in a square paddock of half an acre, inclosed with a hedge, at the north-west angle outside the moat of the Manor House.
There are no monumental inscriptions in Coppingford.
Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The full 1841 Census of Coppingford Parish is available as fiche set C95.
The full 1851 Census of Coppingford Parish is available as fiche set C45.
A surname index of the 1881 Census of the Huntingdon Registration District, in which Coppingford was enumerated (RG11/1601, Folios 66a - 67b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available as fiche set C3.
A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Sawtry sub-District of the Huntingdon Registration District (RG12/1235) in which Coppingford was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, has also been produced by the Huntingdonshire FHS (as Fiche C-7).
The above mentioned fiche are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
The church is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086 and seems to
have still been standing as late as 1526 when it was served by a curate
under the Rector of Copmanford with Upton. By 1707 it had been pulled down and
no records remain as to its form.
The dedication appears to have been to
All Saints, although one record gives it as St Mary. >From 1465, when William
Sherard was instituted Rector of Coppingford and Upton, all succeeeding rectors
have been so instituted.
There are no surviving church records for Coppingford alone; the parishoners used Upton church, which is known as Coppingford-with-Upton (or Upton-cum-Coppingford) parish church.
The parish of Upton-cum-Coppingford was originaly in the Huntingdon Registration District from 1st July 1837. Subsequently it became part of the Sawtry sub-District. Once again, from 1st April 1997, it is directly under the Huntingdon Registration District.
A GENWEB page for Coppingford is available.
An old map of the parish of Coppingford in the 19th century is available.
Population in 1801 - 53.
Population in 1851 - 65.
Population in 1901 -
34.
Population in 1931 - 29.
From 1951 the population figures were
included with Upton
The parish of Coppingford 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.
The parish of Coppingford comprises 828 acres of land.
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