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Old Weston, Huntingdonshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1932.

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OLD WESTON:
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]

"OLD WESTON, 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."

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