Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HADDON

HADDON, a parish in the district of Peterborough, and county of Huntingdon; between Billing Brook and Ermine street, near the boundary with Northampton, 3 miles NW by N of Stilton, and 4 ESE of Elton r. station. Post town, Stilton, under Peterborough. Acres, 1, 214. Real property, £1, 324. Pop., 146. Houses, 30. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Chesterton, in the diocese of Ely. The church is Norman and early English, and has a tower. A national school was built in 1865.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Haddon Parish       Huntingdonshire Ancient County
Place: Haddon

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