Stanground:
Situated south of the River Nene, on relatively high ground overlooking The Fens, the area was historically part of the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire and of Huntingdonshire, rather than the Soke of Peterborough in Northamptonshire. By 1901 Stanground was the only civil parish in England contained partly in two administrative counties.
In 1905 the part in the county of Huntingdon was designated a separate parish, Stanground South, within Old Fletton Urban District and the anomaly removed; the remainder, in Thorney Rural District, becoming Stanground North.
In 1965 Huntingdonshire and the Soke amalgamated as Huntingdon and Peterborough and the Isle of Ely and historic Cambridgeshire (excluding Thorney Rural District which transferred to Huntingdon and Peterborough) amalgamated as Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely.
In 1974 Thorney Rural District and Old Fletton Urban District became part of the current district in the new non-metropolitan county. As part of a Rural District prior to the passing of the Act, Stanground North remained parished. This redundant parish which contained no dwellings or residents was finally abolished in 2003.
Starting from where we finished last time at St Johns the Baptist Church, Stanground, we uncover some of the interesting facts and past stories associated with the church as we continue to make our way to Farcet and then onto Yaxley.
In this section we get to explore the barn at the Woolpack Pub, which until the mid-19th. century, served as the village mortuary. Originally constructed in 1711, last used in 1850s and said to be haunted.
We pass through Tenter Hill Meadow ‘…rich Roman landscape’ with ‘…evidence for a Roman settlement and industrial activity represented by kilns sites together with pottery and coins’.
“The archaeology recorded during the excavation is suggestive of either an Iron Age or early Romano-British cemetery and, although no skeletal remains were found, the form and nature of the features are indicative of graves and burial monuments.
Before finishing this section at” Stanground Wash and Stanground Sluice.
The Fen Edge Trail takes you from the Lincolnshire border in the northwest of the county to the Suffolk border in the southeast, roughly following the ‘edge’ of the Fens (including the islands) where the land rises to 5 metres above sea level (the 5 m contour).
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