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Lutton, Huntingdonshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1932.

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LUTTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1932.

[Description(s) transcribed by Martin Edwards and later edited by Colin Hinson ©2010]
[from The Victoria County History series - 1932]

"LUTTON, the parish of Lutton was partly in Huntingdonshire and partly in Northamptonshire. Ecclesiastically, it is in Huntingdonshire where it was united with Washingley (Huntingdonshire) in 1512. However, for civil purposes, it was mainly in the Norman Cross Hundred of Huntingdonshire, with a part in the Willybrook Hundred of Northamptonshire. In 1889 the Huntingdonshire part transferred to Northamptonshire, and the civil parish is now entirely in that county. The parish is cut-off from from the rest of the Hundred of Willybrook, only just touching Tansor at its extreme point and being otherwise surrounded by parishes of the Polebrook Hundred of Northamptonshire, except in the east where it borders Washingley in Huntingdonshire.

The parish lies higher, at about 200 ft. above sea-level, than most of the Hundred, at the northern end of a ridge bordering on the eastern side of the valley of the Nene. The parish lies on Oxford Clay with a strong surface clay of poor quality, growing wheat, beans and barley. It is destitute of woodland.

The main road from Polebrook to Washingley and Yaxley runs through the parish. At the village of Lutton, roads branch off to Glatton and Papley. The village is built irregularly along the main road. The Manor House at the eastern end of the village is now a farmhouse. North-east of the church was a Wesleyan Chapel built in 1872. The parish was inclosed in 1867, its award was in the custody of the Rector."

[Description(s) transcribed by Martin Edwards ©2003 and later edited by Colin Hinson ©2010]
[mainly from The Victoria County History series- 1932]