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74 STANGROUND. HUNTINGDONSHIRE. [KELLY'S 1538, but is imperfect. The living is a vicarage, net destroyed by fire in 1899· Edward Westwood esq. yearly value £4oo, including 2I4 acres of glebe, with is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are residence, in the gift of the Master and Fellows of Em- Lieut.-Col. Charles I sham Strong J .P. the Corporatirm manuel College, Cambridge, and held since 1905 by the of Peterborough and the vicar. In the vicarage garden Rev. Edmund Gill Swain M.A. and formerly scholar of is an ancient cross, 5ft. 2in. in height, discovered on that college. The chapelry of Farcet was formerly an- the Farcet road, where, till 1865, it formed a bridge nexed to this living, but by Order in Council, 27th over a ditch. The soil is a rich loam; subsoil, clay February, 1885, the parishes are now separated. The and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and Baptists and Primitive Methodists have places of war- beans. The area of South Stanground civil parish is ship here. The Cemetery, opened in IB9o, is under the I,279 acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, control of a Joint Burial Committee of 6 members. £7,6I3; the population in 191I was 1,3-92. The popu Charities :-Edward Bellamy, in r657, left a rent-charge lation of Stanground ecclesiastical parish, which of £3 yearly to apprentice one boy alternately in this extends into the Isle of Ely, is 1,463. parish and Farcet: William Bellamy, in I704, and Robert Sexton, Arthur Seaward. Bellamy, in 1779, gave rent-charges producing £,2 each Town Sub-Post Office.-~oble Spreckley, sub-po;;t- yearly; Rev. Robert Cory B.D. vicar I842-85, also left master. Letters arrive by foot post from Peter- £,roo in Consols; these, together with Clarke's gift of borough at 9 a. m. & 1.40; 5.30 & 8 p.m.; dispatched £roo in Consols, left by will in I846, and the Poor's at 8.13 a.m. & 2.15, 5·45. 7.40 & 8.45 p.m. Old land, yielding about £4 ws. a year, are for dis- Fletton, I mile distant, is the nearest money order tribution yearly among the poor of the parish. The & telegraph office greater portion of these charities are now administered County Police Station, Geo. Wilson, supt. & 3 constables by the vicar and four trustees nominated by the Urban Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with master's District Council, under a scheme dated 10 Jan. 1908: residence, in rgoo, for 270 children; William .Alfred the church land furnishes £3 r2s. yearly for the ~Bwborn, master churchwarden's expenses. At the south-eastern border Infants', built in 1886 & enlarged in 1899, for 170 chil- of the parish are the remains of a fortification, sup- dren; Mrs. Ruth Hitchborn, mistress posed to have been erected during the Protectorate, Old Fletton Urban District Council Pumping Station now called "Horsey Grange." The Manor House was (sewage) Br)ant Charles ,V. Stanground house Freear Jamefl, lighterman, North st 1 Payne Ann (Mrs.), Anchor P.H Chapman Thomas, Gazeley hall (let- Freear .Teremiah, carter & lighterman i Peterborough Equitable & Industria) ters throug-h Farcet) Freear Rachel (~1rs.), shopkeeper Co-operative Society Limited (No. Lee Robert, Lee>'~"ard Freear William, dairyman, North st 5 branch) Swain Rev. Edmund Gill M.A. Guodwin Marg-aret (Miss), dress ma Raynor Harry Fletcher, cattle dealer, (vicar), South street Goodwin WilLiam, florist, North st South street COMMERCIAL. Gorring Thos.Ferry Boat P.H.North st Redhead Albert, farmer,. Stonehouse Adams A dam, beer retailer, North st Gonlding Harriet (~irs. ), shopkeeper, farm Afford Ann (Mrs.), grocer, South st Church street Rigby William, sweep Barfield Wm. coach builder, South st Harris Chas. Fredk. farmer, Drysides Sellers Waiter, beer retailer, South s' Eerridge Wm. carpenter, Church st Hillard Sarah ("Mrs.), baker, North st Shelton Chas.Wm.horse dlr.Church st Bland John Thomas Glenday, farmer, Howard Daisy (Miss), shopkeeper Short Sarah Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Drysides .Tones Frank, painter, Church street North street Badger Robert, baker, Prospect place King- William, dairy, .South street Spreckle:v Noble, shoe ma. Post office Brewitt Alfred, butcher, North street Kitchen Chas. (Mrs.), frmr. Park frm Starling William Henry, boat buildet Brown Childerley, grocer, South st Lee Benjamin, lighterman Steels J oseph, Coach & Horses P .H. Cemetery (J. W. Buckle, Peterboro', Lee William, lighterman High street clerk; Arthur Haynes, keeper) Long G. I. & Co. Limited, maltsters, Stratton Martha (Miss),Blue Bell P.H Coe Robert Edmund,builder & assist- North street Tow Thomas, baker, North street ant overseer Manchett Thos. shopkpr. Church 5t Waite Elsie (Miss),dress ma.North st DaVI"son John Thomas, shopkeeper Martin Edward V. beer retailer Waiter William Mason, farm bailiff Ellwood Charlotte E. (Mrs.), butcher, Newall Levi & Son, hawkers to D. H. Redhead esq. J.P. Glebe Church street Oxenham Edith .S. (Mrs.), Woolpack farm Farrington Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, P.H. Church street Ward Hannah ("Mrs.), dress maker, South street Parsons William Thomas, dairyman, High street Freear Christopher, sluice keeper for Coney-cree road Watts Waiter, shoeing smith Middle level commissioners GREAT STAUGHTON is a village and parish, 4~ Protector: in the chancel chapel, at the ea~t end of miles north-west from St. Neots on the main line of the north aisle, is a mural monument to Major-General the Great Northern <railway, 4 miles from Grafham Handasyd, Governor of Jamaica., who died in 1729; station, si: south-east from Kimbolton station on the another to his elde~t son, the Hon. Gene•ral Roger Kettering and Cambridge branch of the Midland rail Handasyd, General-in-Chief of all His Majesty's foot way, and 9 south-west from Huntingdon. in the forces, Governor of Port St. Philip in Minorca and Southern division of the county, hundred and petty Governor of Berwick in the rebellion of 1745, who died sessional di-vision of Toseland, union and county court in 1763; there is also an altar-tomb of black marble district of St. N eats, rural d,anery of St. N eots, arch to one of the Beverley family, formerly lords Gf the deaconry of Huntingdon and diocese of Ely. The parish, manor, dated 1670, several mural tablet~ of the last situated on the border of Bedfordshire, is watered by century to the Duberly family, and others {)f receni the river Kim, a tributary of the Ouse, which, passing date to Lieut.-Col. Henry Dnberly, 1890; Cecil V. through the village on one side of the churchyard, Dllberly, d. I878; William Duberly, d. 1888; and to gives a very pleasing and picturesque appearance to Lcmisa (Blake) wife of Arthur, 5th baron Sandys, d. 6th the place. The church of St. Andrew, with the excep April, 1886: in the chancel i~ an elaborate mural monu tion ·of the tower, is an embattled structure of ccbble ment to Sir James Dyer knt. sometime recorder of stones with freestone dressings, in the Decorated and Cambridge, Queen's Serjeant and Lord Chief Justice Perpendicular styles, and consists Qf a chancel, with of the Common Pleas, ob. 24th March, 1582, and chapel and vestry on the north ·side, clerestoried nave Margaret (a Barrow) his wife, who was the widow of of five bays, aisles, south porch and a massive western Sir Thomas Elyot kt. the famous author of the "Bake tower, with crocketed pinnacles, containing a clock and of the Governour; " she died in IS6o: there is another 5 bells, while in rgoi the bells were rehung and monument to Sir Richard Dyer kt. Gentleman of the quarter turned: the south elevation, south porch and Privy Chamber to King James I. ob. 16o5, and Maria westernmost piers of the south aisle are Late Decorated (Fitzwilliams) his wife, ob. 1601, with full-s-ized kneel and the windows have florid tracery; the rest of the ing effigies and shields of arms; and an elaborately edifice is principally Perpendicular: the steps and doors sculptured mural monument of marble to Sir Baldwin of the rood loft remain: over the eastern gable of the Conyers hart. d. 17th April, 1731, and his son John nave is a bell-cote still containing a fine sanctus bell: Conyers esq. d. 4th Sept. I729: in the chancel are on the parapet of the vestry is the date 1526: the brasses to the Rev. Henry Bristow Wilson B.D. vicar stained window of the chapel, erected in 1870, is a 185o-88, and the Rev. Richard Waiter M.A. chaplain of memorial to the late James Duberly esq. of Gaynes Portsmouth dockyard, I745-85; a memorial to General Hall: in the south aisle is a handsome monument with Denzil Onslow, d. 20 Aug. 1838, and his sons, Denzil, recumbent effigy in armour to Sir George Wanton kt. d. 10 Feb. IB79, and Henry Cope, d. 25 April, I87o; a former lord of the manor, ob. r6o6: the monument there is also a brass to Martha Empleton from Rosa appears from the Latin inscription to have been erected Dubcrley, erected in 1912, and a memorial window tQ by Sir Oliver Cromwell kt. uncle and godfather of the Mrs. Elizabeth Murfin, d. 1872: the stained west .