Description
Keyston, a parish, with a village, in Huntingdonshire, adjacent to Northamptonshire, 4 miles ESE of Thrapston, and 2 1/2 NE from Raunds station on the M.R. It has a post office under Thrapston; money order office, Thrapston; telegraph office, Raunds railway station. Acreage, 2691; population, 208. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £192 with residence. The church is a fine cruciform structure of the 14th century, has a W tower, with lofty spire, and contains some monumental slabs. The N transept was once a private chapel, and perhaps the burial-place of Lord Fen'ers, who was interred in the church.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
