Stanground North is a former

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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

Peterborough Peterborough ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The city is north of London, on the River Nene. A ...

district, in the ceremonial county of

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfor ...

, 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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, was abolished in 2004.

History

The parish was originally created on 1 October 1905, when Stanground parish was divided into two ( Stanground South became part of Old Fletton urban district), having hitherto been the only parish to still cross a county border. It had a peak population of 43 in the census of 1921.Stanground North - Population
/ref> Between 1905 and 1974, Stanground North was one of only two parishes in the Thorney Rural District. In 1974, it became part of the Peterborough district of

. On 1 April 2004 the parish was abolished.

References

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