Long Stanton, Cambridgeshire

Description
Long Stanton, a village divided into two parishes, All Saints and St Michael, in Cambridgeshire. The village stands 6 miles NW from Cambridge, and has a station on the G.E.R, 1 1/4 mile N, and a post office under Cambridge; money order office, Oakington ; telegraph office at railway station. Area of All Saints-parish, 1938 acres; population, 376. Area of St Michael; parish, 841 acres; population, 78. The living of All Saints is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The Church of All Saints is an edifice built of pebble-stone and rubble, in the Decorated style ; consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S transept, S porch, and an embattled western tower and spire; contains an ancient octagonal font, and memorials of the Hattons. The chancel was restored in 1891. The living of St Michael is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £343 with residence, in the gift of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of rubble and flint, chiefly in the Early English style; consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a double bell-gable at the west end; retains a very fine double piscina, and has a roof of thatch. There is a Wesleyan chapel in All Saints. There was formerly a palace here belonging to the Bishop of Ely, in which Bishop Cox entertained Queen Elizabeth in 1564.