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TETWORTH
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
"TETWORTH, a parish in the hundred of Toseland, county Huntingdon, 6 miles south-east of Neot's, and 3 north-west of Potton. It is joined with Everton, in Biggleswade hundred."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
by Colin Hinson ©2013
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- Monumental inscriptions for this parish have not yet been recorded by the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.
- The full 1841 Census of Tetworth Parish is available as fiche set C80.
- The full 1851 Census of Tetworth Parish is available as fiche set C30.
- The full 1891 Census of Tetworth Parish is available as fiche set C13.
- A surname index of the 1881 Census of the St. Neots Registration District, in which Tetworth was enumerated (RG11/1611, Folios 130a - 134b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available as fiche set C5.
- The above mentioned fiche are available from the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- OS Grid Square TL 204514.
- The church of St. Mary consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle, south aisle, west tower and south porch. The walls are of stone rubble with stone and clunch dressings, but those of the tower are mostly of ironstone. The roofs are covered with tiles, slates and lead.
- The church is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, but this early church was rebuilt in the middle of the 12th century, as a chancel and an aisled nave, the greater part of which still exists. At the end of the 14th century, the tower, south porch and clearstory were built, and about 100 years later, the chancel arch was rebuilt.
- A general restoration took place in 1865 when the north wall of the north aisle and the south-east corner of the south aisle were rebuilt.
- The following are available in the Huntingdon Records Office.
- Baptisms: 1604-27, 1650-1812 (both indexed transcriptions), 1813-1866, 1866-1958.
- Banns: 1755-1810 (indexed transcriptions), 1823-1946.
- Marriages: 1604-27, 1654-1812 (both indexed transcriptions), 1813-1837, 1837-1946.
- Burials: 1604-28, 1653-1812 (both indexed transcriptions), 1813-1921.
- Bishop's Transcripts: 1604-5, 1608-10, 1617, 1619, 1625, 1627, 1669-72/1672-82, 1684-7, 1689, 1691-1702, 1705-9, 1714-16, 1718, 1720, 1723-1766/1766-1813/1813-1816, 1818, 1822/1825-59.
- The Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes include marriages from this parish. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical listings in series: 1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- Tetworth was originally in the St Neots Registration District, which itself became a sub-district of Huntingdon. From 1st April 1997, it has been in the Huntingdon Registration District.
- A transcript of the Tetworth parish entries from 1932 Victoria County Series
- A transcript of the Tetworth parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1835 Topographical Dictionary of England,
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Tetworth to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL213532 (Lat/Lon: 52.16375, -0.228002), Tetworth which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The war memorial with detailed information about those who fell is available on Roll of Honour site for Cambridgeshire.
- The parish of Tetworth was part of the St Neots Union (for Poor Law administration).
- Births and Deaths registered in the St Neots Union Workhouse (1913 - 1952) are available, as fiche set D11, from the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.