PAXTON (GREAT),
a parish in the hundred of TOSELAND, county of HUNTINGDON, 3
miles (N.E. by N.) from St. Neot’s, containing 250 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacies of Little Paxton and Toseland,
in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln. rated in the king’s
books at £16.2.11., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln.
The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The river Ouse bounds the parish
on the west.
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