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Stanground, Huntingdonshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1932.
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STANGROUND:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1932.
"STANGROUND, 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."