Huntingdonshire
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Nearby Places
Nearby churches
Weston (xi cent.), Wald Weston, Weston de Waldis, Westgrenewald (xiii cent.), Woldweston (xiii-xiv cent.), Weston-super-Waldis, Wodeweston (Xiv cent.), Weston-upon-Brouneswold (xv cent.), Old Weston (xvi cent.).
The Old Weston parish is of mixed soil with a sub-soil of clay. About one half of the land is arable and the other half is pasture; there is now little woodland left. Old Weston Grove in the south-west of the parish represents the 13th century pasture called 'Woldwestongrave' or 'Weston-super-Waude'. In 1340, William de Weston had licence to impark his wood, and a jury of 1549 stated they had known the Abbot of Ramsey felled a great Wood at Weston Grove.
A stream flows south-east through the middle of the parish, and seems formerly to have had the name Cock Brook. The land is very undulating varying from 145 ft. to 245 ft. above sea-level. The remains of Old Weston Windmill, mentioned as early as 1200, are in the south of the parish, and represents one of two 14th century Windmills is the manor of Weston, Brington and Bythorn.
The somewhat scattered village stands mainly on the north side of the stream, but the church is detached from the village and is on the south-west side of it. The village is said to have extended south of the church but was burnt down. A record of the brief exists at Leighton Bromswold for the fire at Old Weston on 28th February 1701. A part of the village is built around a loop in the road from Leighton Bromswold, from which the village street runs west and north. The Model Farm on the east side of the road is probably on the site of the manor house, the house and grounds of which in 1279 were said to have covered 10 acres. The present house was built early in the 17th century.
The Wesleyan Chapel was erected in 1839, and the Odd Fellows Hall in 1887.
Monumental Inscriptions from the Parish Churchyard (approximately 152 entries - £1.50 inclusive of postage worldwide) are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS Bookstall..
Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The full 1841 Census of Old Weston Parish is included in fiche format from the Huntingdonshire FHS Bookstall as Fiche Set C102 (The Western Villages - Keyston, Bythorn, Molesworth, Brington, Old Weston) at a cost of £1.50, inclusive of postage and packing charges worldwide.
The full 1851 Census of Old Weston Parish is included in fiche format from the Huntingdonshire FHS Bookstall as Fiche Set C52 (The Western Villages - Keyston, Bythorn, Molesworth, Brington, Old Weston) at a cost of £1.50, inclusive of postage and packing charges worldwide.
A surname index of the 1881 Census of the Thrapston Registration District of Northamptonshire, in which Old Weston was enumerated (RG11/1583, Folios 30a - 36b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available, at a cost of £1.50, as Fiche C1.
A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Huntingdonshire
(Miscellaneous Parishes) Registration District (Sub-Districts of Thrapston
(NTH), Oundle (NTH), Stamford (LIN) and Caxton (CAM)) in which Old Weston was
enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, has also been produced by
the Huntingdonshire FHS (as Fiche C-16) at a cost of £4.50.
Apart
from where otherwise stated, these fiches are all available from the Huntingdonshire FHS Bookstall. They are also
available for credit card purchases through the On-line Family History Fair, GENfair.
OS Grid Square TL 094772.
The church of St Swithin consists of a chancel, nave, north
aisle, south aisle, west tower and south porch. The walls are of
stone dressings and the roofs are covered with lead.
The
church is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, but the
earliest parts of the present building are the later 13th
century arcades. During the 14th century, the church seems to
have been largely rebuilt, commencing with the chancel which was
rebuilt and widened to the north in the first decade; the aisle
walls in the middle of the century; the clearstory added to the
nave about the same time; and the west tower and the south porch
at the extreme end of that century.
The northern part of
the east wall of the chancel and the western end of the north
aisle were rebuilt in the 15th century. The roof of the nave was
reconstructed in 1657, that of the north aisle in 1638 and the
south aisle in 1785. The church was restored in 1895 when the
walls were thoroughly repaired and pointed, and the roofs
re-leaded.
Baptisms: 1604-1851 (indexed), 1808-1812,1813-1880,
1880-1994.
Banns: 1754-1812, 1823-1969.
Marriages:
1604-1851 (indexed), 1754-1812, 1813-1837, 1837-1957,
1959-1978.
Burials: 1604-1851 (indexed), 1808-1812,
1813-1992.
Bishop's Transcripts: 1604-1807 (indexed),
1604-5, 1607-8, 1610, 1612, 1617-19, 1626-7, 1660-9/1672-6,
1684-5, 1687-8, 1692-8, 1700, 1702, 1704-6, 1708-11, 1714-15,
1718-19, 1721-31, 1733-6, 1741, 1743-6, 1748-9, 1751-5, 1777,
1778, 1782, 1785-1813/1813-25/1826-38, 1840-58.
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 Bookstall. It is also available for credit card purchases through the On-line Family History Fair, GENfair.
Old Weston was in the Thrapston Registration District of Northamptonshire from 1st July 1837, but it subsequently came under the Raunds sub-District of Thrapston.
The war memorial with detailed information about those who fell is available on the Roll of Honour site for Huntingdonshire.
Population in 1801 - 258
Population in 1851 -
432
Population in 1901 - 199
Population in 1951 -
201
Population in 1971 - 190
Population in 1991 - 172.
The parish of Old Weston was in the Thrapston Union of Northamptonshire for Poor Law administration.
The parish of Old Weston occupied an area of 2051 acres.
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