Description
Fletton, a parish in Huntingdonshire, on the navigable river Nene, and at the boundary with Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, 1 mile SSE of Peterborough. It has the Peterborough Joint station for the G.E.I£., L. & N.W.R., and M.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Peterborough. Acreage, 852; population, 2194. The manor belonged to Peterborough Abbey, and passed to the Flettons and the Probys. It now belongs to the trustees of the late Thomas 'Mills, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £320 with residence. The church is an ancient building of Bamack stone in various styles. New Fletton, a hamlet of this parish, was incorporated with the borough of Peterborough in 1874.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
