Hail Weston Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

Hail Weston is a chapelry of Southoe Ancient Parish in Huntingdonshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St Nicholas

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1644
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Strict Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Midloe
• Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire
• Little Paxton
• Great Staughton

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HAIL-WESTON, a village and a parish in St. Neots district, Huntingdon.

The village stands near the river Kym, and near the boundary with Beds, 2½ miles NW of St. Neots r. station; and has a post-office under St. Neots.

The parish comprises 1, 553 acres. Real property, £3, 154. Pop., 440. Houses, 94. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to R. A. Reynolds, Esq. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Southoe, in the diocese of Ely. The church was reported in 1859 as very bad. There are a Baptist chapel and a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HAIL-WESTON (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of St. Neot’s, hundred of Toseland, county of Huntingdon, 2¼ miles (N. W.) from St. Neot’s; containing 397 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Southoe: the great tithes, which belong to the Bishop of Ely, have been commuted for £300, and the vicarial for £95. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

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Administration

• County: Huntingdonshire
• Civil Registration District: St Neots
• 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: St Neots
• Poor Law Union: St Neots
• Hundred: Toseland
• Province: Canterbury