Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LEIGHTONSTONE

LEIGHTONSTONE, a hundred in Huntingdonshire; bounded by the counties of Bedford and Northampton, and by the hundreds of Normancross, Hurstingstone, and Toseland; and containing the parish of Alconbury, twenty-nine other parishes, and parts of three others. Acres, 53,696. Pop. in 1851,10,890; in 186l, 10,789. Houses, 2,333.


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

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Huntingdonshire AncC
Place: Leightonstone

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