Alconbury with Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire Family History Guide
Alconbury with Alconbury Weston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.
Other places in the parish include: Alconbury Weston, Chesfield, and Chivesfield.
Alternative names: Alconbury, Alkmundbury
Parish church: St. Peter and St. Paul
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Upton and Copmanford
- Buckworth
- Little Stukeley
- Ellington
- Sawtry St Judith
- Brampton
- Wood Walton
- Woolley
- Great Stukeley
- Abbots Ripton
Parish History
Alconbury
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ALCONBURY, or Alkmundbury, a parish in the district and county of Huntingdon; on Alconbury brook, near Ermine-street and the Eastern Counties railway, 5 miles NW of Huntingdon. It has a post office under Huntingdon, and a fair on 24 June. Acres, 3,700. Real property, £5,087. Pop., 909. Houses, 200.
Alconbury Lodge is the chief residence. Alconbury hill commands a fine view. Alconbury brook rises on the confines of Northamptonshire, and runs about 3 miles south-eastward to the Ouse at Huntingdon.
The living includes Alconbury-Weston, and is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £162. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ALCONBURY (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the hundred of Leightonstone, union and county of Huntingdon, 4½ miles (N. W.) from Huntingdon; containing 823 inhabitants, and comprising about 4000 acres. A fair is held on Midsummer-day.
The living is a discharged vicarage, with the living of Alconbury-Weston annexed, valued in the king’s books at £8. 6. 1.; net income, £162; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The glebe comprises 186 acres. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Alconbury Weston
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ALCONBURY-WESTON, a parish, in the hundred of Leightonstone, union and county of Huntingdon, 6 miles (N. W.) from Huntingdon; containing 491 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Alconbury.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Alconbury
Alconbury Weston
Administration
- County: Huntingdonshire
- Civil Registration District: Huntingdon
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of Lincoln and of the Archdeacon in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Leightonstone
- Poor Law Union: Huntingdon
- Hundred: Leightonstone
- Province: Canterbury