Description
Fen Stanton, a village and a parish in Huntingdonshire. The village stands near the river Ouse, on the border of Cambridgeshire, 2 miles S of St Ives, which is the nearest railway station, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office-under St Ives. Acreage, 2584; population, 975. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £168 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles. There are-Congregational and Calvinistic Baptist chapels. A town estate of 94 acres produces about £88, which is devoted to-the poor.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
