
STAUGHTON
(GREAT), a parish comprising the divisions of North Side and South Side,
in the hundred of TOSELAND, county of HUNTINGDON, 3¼ miles
(S.E. by S.) from Kimbolton, and containing 1173 inhabitants. The living is
a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £ 20, and in the. patronage of the President and Fellows
of St. John’s College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. There
are two small be quests in support of a school, by Elizabeth Couyers, in 1709,
and John Poachby, in 1727.
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