FEN-STANTON, a parish
in the hundred of TOSELAND, county of HUNTINGDON, 2½ miles
(S. by E.) from St. Ives, containing 776 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage with the perpetual curacy of Hilton annexed, in the archdeaconry
of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £11.11.5½.,
and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. Joseph Ellis, in 1728,
endowed a school with about £10 a year, for teaching four children of Fen-Stanton,
and four of Fen-Drayton. The river Ouse runs through the parish.
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