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window was erected by William Henry M urfin in park-like grounds of upwards of soo acres; it is now memory of his father, the late Thomas Henry Murfin; the property of Harry Pickersgill-Cunliffe esq. who is and there are others to the wife of Edward Robotham lord of the manor of Staughton Rectory. Maj. Grey esq. of Staughton House; the Rev. James Pope, William Duberly J.P. who is lord of the manors of formerly vicar of the parish ; to a son of the Rev. Gaynes, Dillington, Perry and Beachampstead, the Henry George Watson, vicar here r895-I909, and one Crown, the Duke of Manchester P.C. and the rector are

on the south side of the chancel, erected bY• ~rs. the principal landowners. The land is arable (wheat Powers in ICf07, in memory of her sister, Miss Emma and bean land) and pasture. The soil is clay and Murfin: the carved oak pulpit was presented in ril93 gravel; subsoil, southern portion gravel, northern clay. by William Henry Murfin and his sisters, in memor~ The area of the parish is 6,407 acres; rateable value. of their sister Elizabeth, d. r8g2: the ancient font, £6,4o6; the population in rgu was 763. a work of the 13-th or 14th century, which had been buried under the floor of the chancel, has been GREAT STAUGHTON MOOR is a hamlet, about 2 recovered and set up anew: there are 400 sittings. miles south from the village and 5 north-west from St. The register dates, with some intm-ruptions, from the Neots, and belongs chiefly to William Hugh Wade­ year 1548. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Gery esq. of Buslnnead. from 288 acres of glebe £;po, with residence, in the PERRY is a hamlet, principally in Great Staughton gift of St. John's College, Oxford, and held since 1909 parish, and 2 miles north-north-east from the village. by the Rev. Collingwood McNeil Rushforth M.A. of that but the eastern portion is in the parish of Grafham. college. The rectorial estate belongs to Harry Pickers­ gill-Cunliffe esq. J.P. of Staughton Manor. There is a . DILLINGTON, mentioned in the records of the Union chapel. An additional burying-ground near the A.bbcy of Ramscy as belonging to Lcofwine, a Saxon. church was consecrated in 1913, the land being given ob. ros6, is a hamlet of Great Staughton, about I mJ!e by Maj. Grey William Duberly J.P. The charities for north-ea5t from the village. Here was formerly a distribution in kind and money amount to about £so church on a site known as "Hale Orchard," but with per 3·ear and are given twice yearly, under the direction the exception of some fragments built intoQ neighbouring of the vicar, two members of the District Council and houses no tr.aces of it now remain. two chosen by the Parish Council ; there are also charities of about £3 8s. for church purposes, of which AGDE~ GREEN is a hamlet of Great Staughton. the vicar and churchwardens are the trustees. By about r mile north of the village. the roadside, in the eastern portion of the village Parish Clerk, Thomas Smith. known as "the highway," is a sundial on a stone column, erected in r637· The village pump was erected Post, M. 0. & T. Office. Joseph Day, postmaster. with money left for that purpose by Jane, widow of Letters arrive from St. Neots by mail cart at 7.20 &. the late Rev. Henry Bristow Wilson B.D. vicar of 11.30 a.m.; dispatched at 2.50 & 7·30 p.m this parish rBso-88. Place House, an interesting build- Post Office, West Perry.-"\Huntingdon at 5.30 church, was partially destroyed by fire in the reign a.m. & 2.20 p.m.; dispatched at g.so a.m. & 5.30 of Charles I.; it was the manor house of the Wautons, & 7.30 p.m.; no sunday delivery of letters. Greai. Leders and Baldwyns in the r6th and 17th centuries, Staughton is the nearest money order & telegraph and afterwards of the Conyers and Waiters families: office, 2 miles distant in r882 it became the property of the Duberly family; Wall Letter Box, Great Staughton village, cleared ai. what remains of it is now a private residence and 2.45 & 7.25 p.m. week days a farm house, but there are still traces of a moat. Pillar Letter Box, Dillington, cleared at 12.30 & 6.45 The manor of Gaynes dates from the time -of Edwa,rd p.m. week days only Ill. when it belonged to Sir John de Engaine kt.; in Council Schools (mixed), Staughton highway, erected 1607 it was the property of Sir Thomas Cromwell, in r 873, on a site given, togethar with master's uncle Df the Protector, and was purchased by the late house, by the late D. Onslow esq. & let by vicar & Sir James Dnberly in 1797. Gaynes Hall, a handsome churchwardens to the board in r883 & subsequently mansion, 2 miles north-east of Great Staughton, in a to the County Council in 1903 ;- it will hold r8o chil• well-wooded park of about 300 acres, is the resiaence dren; Charles W. Pearson, master of Maj. Grey William Duberly J.P. Staugbton Manor, the residence of John .A. p. Howey esq. for many years Conveyance.-The omnibus fr().Ill Kimbolton to the Si. the seat of the Onslow family, is a pleasant mansian Neots station passes through every m·on. wed. &;, fri near to and south of the church, and surrounded l:.y Carrier.-.Mrs. Mary Ann Houghton, to Bedford, sat GREAT STAUGHTON. Glithro Georg-e :M. butcher GREAT STAUGHTON MOOR. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hawkins John, farmer Elliott Benjamin, farmer Bird Arthur Hots on John, farm bailiff to Major Elliott Henry, farmer Dnberly Major Grey William J.P. Grey William Duberly J.P Franklin Thomas, fa.,.,rmmer Gavnes hall Houghton ~Iary Ann (Mrs.), farmer & Leflay George .Aaron, farmer How~y John A. P. Staug'hton manor carrier Topham Owen, farmer Matthews Arthur J. The Limes Howard Samuel, farmer Watts Charles, farmer Morris Miss Hnmbley Thomas, farmer \Yatts Ernest Bertie, Dolphin P.H R ea d """"curs. Wh"t1 e h ouse Jordan William, farmer, Manor farm Rushforth . Rev. Cdiocese of Ely. The church of St. Mary, daughter of Sir John Cotton, 4th bart. d. 1714; Andrews is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early Eng- a marble slab, '"with arms, to Sir John Cotton, 6th and