Stanground North was a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the City of Peterborough,

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, England. The 2001 census recorded a population of zero. The parish, which covered open fields on a flood plain of the

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, has since been abolished as redundant. The parish was originally created in 1905, when Stanground parish was divided into two ( Stanground South becoming part of Old Fletton

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), having hitherto been the only parish to still cross a county border. From then until 1974, it formed the only parish in

Thorney Rural District {{coord, 52.587, -0.109, display=title, region:GB_scale:50000 Thorney was a rural district in England from 1894 to 1974, situated to the east of Peterborough. It was created under the Local Government Act 1894, covering the parishes of Thorney ...

apart from

Thorney, Cambridgeshire Thorney is a village in the Peterborough unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Located around eight miles (13 km) east of Peterborough city centre, on the A47. Historically in the Isle of Ely, Thorney w ...

, being in

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until 1965 and then Huntingdon and Peterborough. In 1974 it became part of the Peterborough district of

. It had a peak population of 43 in the census of 1921.Stanground North - Population
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References

Former civil parishes in Cambridgeshire Geography of Peterborough Unparished areas in Cambridgeshire {{Cambridgeshire-geo-stub