Sibson-cum-Stibbington is 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

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. The district council is based in Huntingdon. Other towns include St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots and Ramsey. The popu ...

district of

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, England. The parish includes the villages of Sibson and Stibbington, together with Wansford railway station and that part of Wansford village south of the

River Nene The River Nene ( or : see below) is a river in the east of England that rises from three sources in Northamptonshire.OS Explorer Map sheet 223, Northampton & Market Harborough, Brixworth & Pitsford Water. The river is about long, about of w ...

.Sibson-cum-Stibbington Parish Council
/ref> The Nene forms the northern boundary of the parish, in a large loop around it from west to east. From 1894 to 1935 the parish was under the administrative responsibility of

Barnack Rural District Barnack was a rural district in the Soke of Peterborough and later Huntingdon and Peterborough from 1894 to 1974. It was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894, from that part of the Stamford rural sanitary district which was in ...

in the

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even though the parish was then in

; it then transferred to Norman Cross Rural District.

Demography

Population

In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of Sibson-cum-Stibbington was recorded every ten years by the

UK census Coincident full censuses have taken place in the different jurisdictions of the United Kingdom every ten years since 1801, with the exceptions of 1941 (during the Second World War), Ireland in 1921/Northern Ireland in 1931,https://www.nisra.gov. ...

. During this time the population was in the range of 324 (the lowest was in 1801) and 790 (the highest was in 1851). From 1901, a census was taken every ten years with the exception of 1941 (due to the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

). All population census figures from report ''Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011'' by ''Cambridgeshire Insight''. In 2011, the parish covered an area of and the population density of Sibson-cum-Stibbington in 2011 was 196.3 persons per square mile (75.8 per square kilometre).

References

* 'Parishes: Stibbington', A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3 (1936), pp. 217–222

Date accessed: 10 May 2008. Huntingdonshire Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire {{Cambridgeshire-geo-stub