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Hartford-cum-Sapley

Hereforde (xi cent.), Hereford by Huntingdon, Herford (xiii cent.), Hertford, Harford (xvi cent.).

The parish of Hartford has only included the Lordship of Sapley since 1877. The soil is clay with a sub-soil of gravel which occasionally comes to the surface, and has been worked in gravel pits. Over half the parish is arable land growing wheat and barley. The slope from Sapley in the north-west is about 145 ft above sea-level; it is now housing but was formerley left to grass. This slope falls down to the River Ouse in the south which forms the parish boundary where the height is almost 33 ft.

The village is on the southern border of the parish near the the river along the road from Huntingdon to St. Ives. In the late 20th century, many new houses have been built. The church is picuresquely situated on the north bank of the Ouse.

At Sapley, which now comprises much modern housing, there is a small motte and bailey castle, the history of which is not known. Roman coins and other objects have been found in the parish. In the Domesday survey of 1086, the land were given under the King.

The civil parish was mostly absorbed into Huntingdon Borough in 1935.

Cemeteries
Census
Church History
Church Records
Civil Registration

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Population
Poorhouses, Poor Law etc.
Statistics

Cemeteries

Monumental Inscriptions from the Parish Churchyard of Hartford (All Saints) are available on one fiche, as fiche set M30, from the Huntingdonshire FHS.

Census

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.

The full 1841 Census of Hartford Parish is available as fiche set C100.

The full 1851 Census of Hartford Parish is available as fiche set C50.

A Surname Index of the 1881 Census of the Huntingdon Registration District, in which Hartford was enumerated (RG11/1603, Folios 94a - 103b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available as Fiche C3.

A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Huntingdon Registration District (RG12/1237) in which Hartford and Sapley were enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, is available as fiche set C9.

The above mentioned fiche are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.

Church History

OS Grid Square TL 256726

The church of All Saints consists of a chancel, modern organ chamber and vestry on the north of the chancel, nave, north aisle, south aisle west tower and south porch. The walls are of pebble with stone dressing and the roofs are tiled.

Of the church mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, nothing remains. The two arcades are of the extreme end of the 12th century, and the northern perhaps is slightly earlier than the south. The north and east walls of the chancel may be of the same date. The tower is of late 15th century date. All the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1861, and a further restoration took place in 1885.

Church Records

Baptisms: 1538-1890, 1813-1893, (on the inside of the back cover of the Banns Register are a few baptisms 1893-4).
Banns: 1754-1793, 1824-1906.
Marriages: 1539-1890 & 1837-1958, Photocopy of Marriages 1983 (sic) - 1987.
Burials: 1539-1890, 1813-1938.
Bishop's Transcripts: 1605, 1608, 1612, 1617-19, 1625-6, 1661-8/1672-7, 1680, 1682-8, 1690-1700, 1702, 1704-8, 1720, 1722-8, 1730-2, 1734, 1736-9, 1741-51, 1753-6, 1758-64, 1766-71, 1773-1800, 1802-1812/1813-24/1825-36, 1839, 1841, 1843-55, 1857-8.

These are available in the Huntingdon Records Office.

The Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes include marriages from this parish. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical listings in series: 1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.