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Stangrun (1086), Stangrund (xi - xiv cent.), Standgrund (xiii cent.), Stanground (xiv cent.).
The ancient parish of Stanground was partly in Huntingdonshire (Norman Cross Hundred) and partly in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire (North Witchford Hundred). It originally included a chapelry at Farcet, which separated ecclesiastically in 1851, and separated as a civil parish in 1866. The Huntingdonshire part of Stanground separated from its Cambridgeshire counterpart in 1906 when it became Stanground South civil parish, and placed under Old Fletton Urban District.
The old parish contained a large area of marshland and fen which was drained in the 17th century under the Earl of Bedford's scheme. the rights of common in a meadow called Northey in Stanground were vested in the Commissioners for Whittlesea in the Isle of Ely, and the parish was inclosed in 1801. A considerable number of prehistoric implements have been found, the most important being at Horsea Bridge in the old course of the River Nene, which crosses the parish at this point. A Roman pottery kiln was found in 1908.
The church and village of Stanground, standing about 23 to 34 ft. above sea-level above Stanground load. Stanground Manor House was totally destroyed by fire in 1899.
Richard Kidder (1633-1703), who became Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1691 in place of Bishop Ken, was vicar of Stanground in 1659. He was ejected from the living in 1662, not because he objected to the Episcopacy or Prayer Book, but because he refused to subscribe to the amended parayer book before he had seen it.
A ferry at Horsea on the old River Nene is mentioned in 1558, when it was let to William Butler. On Horsea Hill there are earthworks which are the remains of an old Cromwellian Fort.
By 1951, the parishes of Fletton, Woodston and Stanground were integrated as wards of Old Fletton Urban District; by 1991, the three former civil parishes they were each urban wards of Peterborough and the civil parishes no longer exist.
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 (1841 - 1891) is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The full 1841 Census of Stanground Parish is available as fiche set C94 from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
The full 1851 Census of Stanground Parish is available as fiche set C44 from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
An index of surnames in the 1851 Census of the Peterborough Registration District (HO107/1747) in which Stanground was enumerated (Folios 222B-229B, 233B-245 and 249B-257), and which took place on 30th March 1851, has also been produced by the Peterborough & District FHS. The Index is available from www.peterborofhs.org.uk in either microfiche or A5 booklet form. Please state which version you want.
OS Grid Square TL 200976.
The church of St John the Baptist consists of a chancel, with north chapel and north vestry, 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 slates and lead. The church is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, but nothing remains of this early church. A 12th century capital, turned upside down under the north-west respond of the nave, may represent a 12th century nave and aisle, and many of the stones of the south arcade indicate a 13th century south aisle. The whole church was probably built on a larger scale than before in the first decade of the 14th century. The rood-stairs were added in the 15th century. The church was restored in 1872, and the south porch rebuilt in 1876. The top of the spire was rebuilt in 1895 and the tower and spire were restored again in 1907. Except where otherwise stated, all the features are of circa 1300 - 1310.
See also Farcet.
Baptisms: 1538-1643 (includes a few entries 1644-1662), 1653-1657, 1660-1812, 1813-1844, 1845-1870, 1870-1895, 1895-1921, 1921-1944, 1944-1959, 1959-1979.
Banns: 1754-1812, 1824-1864, 1865-1897.
Marriages: 1538-1643, 1653-1656, 1662-1754, 1754-1812, 1813-1837, 1837-1903, 1903-1916, 1917-1927, 1927-1938, 1938-1947, 1947-1955, 1955-1960, 1960-1965, 1965-1968.
Burials: 1538-1643?, 1653-1657, 1660-1812, 1813-1862, 1862-1968.
Bishop's Transcripts: 1604-5, 1610, 1617-19, 1625-7, (1660-8)/1659/77, 1679-80, 1682-3, 1685-6, 1688-90, 1692-8, 1700, 1702-4, 1706, 1708-14, 1717-60/1760-1813/1813-24/1825-42, 1846, 1851, 1853-8.
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.
Stanground has been in the Peterborough Registration District continuously since 1st July 1837.
An old map of the parish of Stanground in the 19th century is available.
Population in 1801 - 544.
Population in 1851 - 1006.
Population in 1901 - 1492.
Population figures from 1951 are included as part of Fletton Urban District of Peterborough, and later as part of Peterborough City itself.
The parish of Stanground was in the Peterborough Union of Northamptonshire for Poor Law administration.
The civil parish of Stanground, known as Stanground Township, occupied 969 acres of land.
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