Great Staughton is a village and

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in Cambridgeshire, England. Great Staughton lies approximately south-west of

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. Great Staughton is situated within

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which is a

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of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.

History

Archealogical studies indicate that there was a settlement on the site now occupied by Great Staughton during the

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. Great Staughton was listed as ''Tocheston'' in the

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of 1086 in the

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of Toseland in Huntingdonshire. There was one manor and 21 households, with an estimated population of 73 and 105 people. There were 10.5 ploughlands, with the capacity for a further 4.5, of meadows, and of woodland. There was already a church and a priest at Great Staughton at this time.

Government

As a civil parish, Great Staughton has a parish council. The parish council consists of nine councillors and meets approximately six times a year in the village hall. The second tier of local government is Huntingdonshire District Council. Great Staughton is a part of the district ward of ''Kimbolton and Staughton'' and is represented on the district council by one councillor. The highest tier of local government is

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. Great Staughton is part of the electoral division of ''Brampton and Kimbolton'' and is represented on the county council by one councillor. Great Staughton was in the historic and

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of Huntingdonshire until 1965. From 1965, the village was part of the new administrative county of

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. Then in 1974, following the

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, Great Staughton became a part of the county of Cambridgeshire. At Westminster Great Staughton is in the parliamentary constituency of

, and since 2024 has been represented in the

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Ben Obese-Jecty Benjamin Obese-Jecty (, born September 1979) is a British Conservative politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon since 2024. Early life Obese-Jecty's father was originally Ghanaian and came to Britain on the SS ''Apapa' ...

Demography

Population

In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of Great Staughton was recorded every ten years by the UK census. During this time the population was in the range of 746 (the lowest was in 1901) and 1373 (the highest was in 1871). From 1901, a census was taken every ten years with the exception of 1941 (due to the

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). All population census figures from report ''Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011'' by ''Cambridgeshire Insight''. In 2011, the parish covered an area of and so the population density for Great Staughton in 2011 was 112.9 persons per square mile (43.6 per square kilometre).

Culture and community

Great Staughton has two

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s, The White Hart and The Snooty Tavern, a post office and a butcher's shop. The village also has a doctor's surgery and a primary school.

References

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