Huntingdonshire
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Ofertune (x, xi cent.), Ovretune (xi cent.), Overton (xiii cent.), Orton (xvi cent.).
Longevill (xiii-xiv cent.), Lungeville (xiii-xv cent.), Longville (xviii cent.).
The present parish of Orton Longueville includes the old parish of Botolphbridge, with which it became united in 1702. The civil parish is known as Orton Longueville; the ecclesiastical parish is known as Orton Longueville with Botolphbridge. In 1728 an Act of Parliament was passed for confirmation of the inclosure of Orton Longueville and Botolphbridge. The parish lies on the borders of Northamptonshire, from which it is separated by the River Nene. The sub-soil is mainly Oxford clay, with Cornbrash near the river. The land is undulating and varies from 22 ft. to 65 ft. above sea-level.
The village, lying at about 55 ft. above sea-level, lies just off the main road from Peterborough to Oundle. The church and village are just outside a large park which surrounded Orton Longueville Hall (now occupied by a school). In the gravel pits in the Park are the remains of a Romano-British hut village.
The early history of the formation of the two parishes of Orton Longueville and Orton Waterville is obscure. In the Domesday Book of 1086, no distinction of name is made, and the different holdings are all called 'Overton', and only one church is mentioned. Originally it seems to have been King's land and in his Soke, but a portion was alienated, probably by King Edgar, to the Abbey of Peterborough, and formed during the reign of King Edward the Confessor as a berewick of the Abbey Manor of Alwalton. In 1066, the remainder of Overton was still in the King's Soke, but by 1086 the Abbey had increased its holding by a grant of three and a half hides made in the time of Wiliam the Conqueror, and the other holdings were in the hands of Eustace, the Sheriff.
It seems impossible to fix a date for the separation of the parish of Orton Waterville, but before 1086, the Abbey of Peterborough had been forced to subinfeudate many of its lands to military tenants, and its holdings in Orton were, then, both in the hands of an ancestor of the Waterville family, and who were hereditary marshals of the Abbot's Hall at Peterborough. One of the descendants probably built the 12th century church which still exists on Orton Waterville, and the parishes were presumably separated before 1185. The Sheriff's land consisted of a manor on which there was a church, and this seems to have formed the nucleus of the parish of Orton Longueville, but some parts of the remainder were acquired by the de Watervilles, and became part of Orton Waterville.
There were some further changes to the civil boundary in 1956. Orton Longueville is now part of Peterborough Urban area.
Monumental inscriptions for this parish have not been recorded by the Huntingdonshire FHS. However, Peterborough & District FHS have an interest in the parish.
Census information for this parish is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The full transcription of the 1841 Census of Orton Longueville Parish is available, as fiche set C106, from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
The full transcription of the 1851 Census of Orton Longueville Parish is available, as Fiche Set C56, from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
A Surnames index of the 1851 Census of the Peterborough
Registration District (HO107/1747) in which Orton Longueville was
enumerated (Folios 183-189), and which took place on 30th March 1851,
has also been produced by the Peterborough & District FHS.
The Index is
available in either microfiche or A5 booklet form from Mr G Harbron, 7 Newby
Close, Peterborough PE3 6PU, England. Please state which version you want.
A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Stilton sub-District of the Peterborough Registration District (RG12/1225) in which Orton Longueville was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, has also been produced by the Huntingdonshire FHS (as Fiche C-15). This is available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
OS Grid Square TL 169967.
The church of the Holy Trinity consists of a chancel, north chapel,
nave, north aisle, south aisle, west tower and south porch. The walls
are of coursed rubble with stone dressings, and the roofs are covered
with lead.
The church is mentioned in the Domesday survey of
1086, but nothing of this early church remains. It probably had an
aisless nave to which aisles were added around 1240. A general
rebuilding was commenced towards the end of the 13th century, beginning
with the chancel, chancel arch and north chapel c.1280; the nave and
aisles c.1300. The west tower was either built, or rebuilt, at the same
time, and the clearstory was added a few years later. In about the
middle of the century, the north chapel was rebuilt and the arch between it and
the chancel was widened towards the east.
The belfry seems to have been
rebuilt with very high walls in the 15th century. The south aisle was rebuilt
to about double its former width with the materials from Botolphbridge church
in 1675, at which time the porch was also rebuilt. This porch was repaired in
1835, and the church in 1840, with the north chapel being partly rebuilt in
1861. The north aisle roof was restored about 1888, and the roofs of the
chancel, nave and south aisle were largely renewed in 1908-9, when some repairs
were also done to the east window and the south clearstory windows.
Baptisms: 1559-1695/6, 1696-1812 (indexed transcriptions), 1745-46
(included in Botolphbridge), 1696-1770, 1771-1812.
Banns: 1754-1812,
1823-1976.
Marriages: 1559-1691, 1695-1695/6 (included with
Botolphbridge), 1696-1955 (indexed transcriptions), 1696-1753,
1754-1812, 1813-1837.
Burials: 1559-1695, 1696-1812 (indexed
transcriptions), 1696-1770, 1771-1812.
Bishop's Transcripts
(including Botophbridge from 1680): 1605, 1608-10, 1612, 1617-19,
1625-7, 1660-8, 1683, 1685, 1695, 1699, 1702, 1704-8, 1710-16, 1718-58,
1760-90, 1793-1813/1813-1824/1825-37, 1842-50, 1852-5.
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.
Orton Longueville was originally in the Peterborough Registration District of Northamptonshire from 1st July 1837. Subsequently it was transferred to the Stilton sub-District of Huntingdonshire. It was later transferred back to the Peterborough District where it remains.
Population in 1801 - 197.
Population in 1851 - 224.
Population
in 1901 - 247.
Population in 1951 - 550.
Population in 1971 -
2427.
Population in 1991 - 10748.
Boundary changes moved
some 450 people from Orton Longueville into Orton Waterville between
1981 and 1991.
The parish of Orton Longueville was in the Peterborough Union of Northamptonshire for Poor Law administration.
The parish of Orton Longueville (including Botolphbridge) occupies 2409 acres of land.
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