Description
Chesterton, a parish in Huntingdonshire, on the verge of the county, and on Ermine Street and the river Nene, 2 1/4miles SW from Overtoil station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 1/4 SW of Peterborough, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Wansford. Acreage, 1349; population, 124. The manor belonged to the Bevils, the Drydens, the Piggots, and the Wallers, and belongs now to the Marquis of Huntley. A single-ditched camp is at Castle-field. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Haddon, in the diocese of Ely; joint net yearly value, £550. The church is partly Norman, partly Early English, in good condition, and has several ancient monuments.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
