Huntingdonshire. [Kelly's
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.
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