FLETTON, a parish in
the hundred of NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, 1 mile (S.
by E.) from Peterborough, containing 159 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £9.3.9. The Earl of Carysfort was patron in 1798. The church is dedicated
to St. Margaret. In digging a well in this parish, in the year 1739, fossil
shells and wood were found at the depth of thirty feet.
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