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Stiuecle (xi cent.), Stiuecleya Abbatis, Stiuecle Parva, Stiuecle Minor (xiii cent.), See also Great Stukeley.
The parish of Little Stukeley lies near the centre of the old county, some three miles north of Huntingdon Town centre. It is a narrow strip of land, bounded mainly by the parishes of Great Stukeley and Alconbury. The land is highest in the north; towards the south, near Alconbury Brook, the low-lying pasture is liable to flood. The soil is stiff clay and part gravel; the sub-soil is clay.
The village formerly lay at the crossing of Ermine Street by the road to Abbots Ripton, but Alconbury Aerodrome now has caused this latter road to be rerouted. The more important part of the village, including the church, is on the north side of Ermine Street along the old Abbots Ripton road, where there are many picturesque timber-framed thatched or tiled houses and cottages. On the south side of Ermine Street the houses are more modern and more scattered.
The civil parish was abolished in 1935 to help create "The Stukeleys" civil parish.
Monumental Inscriptions for Little Stukeley have not yet been recorded by the Huntingdonshire FHS.
Census information (1841 - 1891) for this parish is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The full 1841 Census of Little Stukeley is available as fiche set C117.
The full 1851 Census of Little Stukeley is available as fiche set C67.
A Surname Index of the 1881 Census of the Huntingdon Registration District, in which Little Stukeley was enumerated (RG11/1604, Folios 90a - 96b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available, as fiche set C3.
A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Huntingdon Registration District (RG12/1237) in which Little Stukeley was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, is also available as Fiche C9.
The above mentioned fiche are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
OS Grid Square: TL 210758.
The church of St Martin consists of a chancel with north chapel and
south chapel, nave, north aisle, south aisle, west tower and south
porch. The walls are of rubble largely faced with ashlar, but parts of
the north aisle and chapel are of brick. The roofs are covered with lead and
tiles.
The church mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086 was probably
of timber; Henry of Huntingdon (who was the Archdeacon) is recorded to have
built (or rebuilt) it in the 12th century. His building apparently consisted of
a chancel and an aisless nave; portions of the latter remain in the north-west,
south-west and south-east responds of the present nave. A large reset arch
between the chancel and the north chapel probably formed part of the chancel
arch. One of the window heads has been built into the north aisle walls, and a
length of corbel-table has been reset at the top of the same walls. The walls
of the tower and the south aisle are largely built of 12th century stones, and
a quantity of loose stones of this date remain in the north chapel - some of
which exhibit the peculiar local form of six or more pallets of varying length
(the longest in the middle) overlapping a roll and hollow after the fashion of
the beak-head.
That a north arcade and aisle were
added to this church in the 13th century is witnessed by the stones of this
period still remaining in the north arcade. The western tower was added towards
the end of the 13th century, and early in the following century, the chancel
was rebuilt and widened, and a north chapel was added.
About 1500, the
nave with its arcades and clearstory, together with the chancel arch, were
complely rebuilt. The south chapel, aisle and porch were also added and some
alterations made in the north chapel and aisles, and large buttresses added to
the tower. Considerable works were done in the latter half of the 17th century,
the south porch was rebuilt in 1652, the belfry in 1659, and the north aisle in
1673.
The north aisle was again rebuilt in 1887, when the north chapel
was altered to form a vestry, and the tower was repaired. the east wall of the
early 14th century chancel was rebuilt with old material in 1910.
Baptisms: 1566-1652/3, 1655-1812, 1813-1883.
Banns:
1755-1812.
Marriages: 1567-1836 (indexed transcription), 1567-1651,
1655-1754, 1755-1812, 1813-1836, 1838-1969.
Burials: 1567-1653,
1655-1812, 1813-1959.
Bishop's Transcripts: 1604-5, 1608-10, 1612,
1617-19, 1625-7, 1632, 1660-72/1673-7, 1685-8, 1690-1702, 1704-18,
1720-6, 1728-9, 1731-9, 1741-83, 1785-1810, 1812/1813-17/1820-3/1825-31, 1833,
1835-8, 1842-3, 1848, 1851-8, 1860.
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.
Little Stukeley has been in the Registration District of Huntingdon since 1st July 1837.
A GENWEB page for Little Stukeley is available.
An old map of the parish of Little Stukeley in the 19th century is available.
Population in 1801 - 233.
Population in 1851 - 409.
Population
in 1901 - 201.
Population in 1931 - 309.
Population figures from
1935 are included Great Stukeley.
The parish of Little Stukeley 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 Little Stukeley occupies some 1523 acres of land.
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