Description
Upton, a village and a parish in Huntingdonshire, 6 miles NNW of Huntingdon, and 4 from Abbots Ripton station on the G.N. R. main line, with a post office under Huntingdon; money order and telegraph office, Alconbury. Acreage, 1216; population of the civil parish, 104; of the ecclesiastical, with Coppingford, 178. The manor belongs to the Heathcote family. The living is a rectory, united with Coppingford, in the diocese of Ely; joint net value, £40. Patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The church is an ancient building partly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower with spire.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
