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Woodston, Huntingdonshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1932.

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WOODSTON:
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]

"WOODSTON, the parish of Woodston was divided under the provisions of the Local Governmemt Act of 1894 into Woodston Rural parish (of 984 acres) and Woodston Urban parish (70 acres). In 1905 Woodston Rural parish became part of Old Fletton Urban District in which it remained until 1938 when it became known as 'Woodston'. Woodston became part of Peterborough Municipal Borough, and by 1991 it was just an enumeration district in Fletton Ward of Peterborough Urban area. The ecclesiastical parish remains undivided. The sub-soil is Oxford Clay, Cornbrash, Great Oolite and Alluvium. The River Nene forms the northern boundary of the parish, and the village seems to have been a landing place for goods coming by river to the market place of Yaxley. Prehistoric implements have been dug up, mainly in the gravels of the Nene, and the parish has yielded many traces of the Romano-British period. Saxon cemeteries have also been found in the area. There were large brickworks and artificial silk works here, and at one time the London Brick Works were the largest land owners in the parish. The parish was inclosed under a local Act of Parliament in 1809."

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