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Lidintone (xi cent.), Lodington, Ludinton (xii cent.), Luddington-in-the-Wold, or Ludington (until the beginning of the xv cent. when 'Lutton' begins to be used occasionally).
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.
Monumental inscriptions of this parish have not yet been recorded by the Northamptonshire FHS.
The full 1841 Census of Lutton Parish is available as fiche set C90.
The full 1851 Census of Lutton Parish is available as fiche set C40.
A surname index of the 1881 Census of the Oundle Registration District of Northamptonshire, in which Lutton was enumerated (RG11/1584, Folios 96a - 99b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available, as fiche set C1.
A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Huntingdonshire (Miscellaneous Parishes) Registration District in which Lutton was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, is available as fiche set C16.
The above mentioned fiche are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
OS Grid Square TL 113878.
The church of St. Peter has a chancel, nave with aisles, south porch
and west tower. Apart from the tower, the parapets elsewhere are plain,
and the roofs are low pitched and leaded. The church stands on the north side
of a triangular space at the junction of three roads, around which the village
is built.
None of the church seems older that c.1220, but two fragments
of 12th century detail are built into the chancel arch and the east end of the
south aisle. In the north wall of the tower is part of a cross slab with
interlaced ornament of Saxon date. The chancel and north arcade of the nave
date from around 1220, whilst the south arcade belongs to the end of that
century, and the aisle walls are probably of the same date as their respective
arcades. The embattled tower is a 15th century addition.
The registers are still retained within the church.
Bishop's
Transcripts: 1707-18, 1729-1870 are at the Northamptonshire Record
Office.
The parish of Lutton was in the Oundle Registration District of Northamptonshire from 1st July 1837. It is still under Oundle.
An old map of the parish of Lutton in the 19th century is available.
The war memorial with detailed information about those who fell is available on the Roll of Honour site for Huntingdonshire.
Population in 1801 - 155.
Population in 1851 - 174
(Northamptonshire); 25 (Huntingdonshire).
Population in 1901 -
170.
Population in 1951 - 271.
Population in 1971 -
180.
Population in 1991 - 137.
The parish of Lutton was in the Thrapston Union of Northamptonshire for Poor Law administration.
The parish of Lutton occupies 1490 acres of land.
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