Upton is a village and
civil parish
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in the
Peterborough
Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...
district, in the ceremonial county of
Cambridgeshire
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, England.
For electoral purposes it forms part of
Glinton and
Wittering ward in
North West Cambridgeshire
North West Cambridgeshire is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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constituency.
The population of the parish is included in the
civil parish
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of
Sutton
Sutton (''south settlement'' or ''south town'' in Old English) may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
England
In alphabetical order by county:
* Sutton, Bedfordshire
* Sutton, Berkshire, a List of United Kingdom locations: Stu-Sz#Su, location
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.
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist is a 12th-century Norman church with a north aisle rebuilt in 17th century. It was a
chapel-of-ease
A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.
Often a chapel of ease is deliberately bu ...
and was built as a daughter church to St Kyneburgha's at
Castor. The church is a Grade I listed building.
It is set in the fields to the east of the village, 100 yards from the Roman
King Street.
References
External links
Church website
Villages in Cambridgeshire
Geography of Peterborough
Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire
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