Stanground churchyard cross, Peterborough - geograph

Stanground is a residential area in the city of Peterborough, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. For electoral purposes it comprises Stanground South and Fletton & Stanground wards in

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constituency.

Overview

Situated south of the River Nene, on relatively high ground overlooking The Fens, the area was

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part of the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire and of Huntingdonshire, rather than the Soke of Peterborough in Northamptonshire. By 1901 Stanground was the only civil parish in England contained partly in two administrative counties. In 1905 the part in the county of Huntingdon was designated a separate parish, Stanground South, within Old Fletton Urban District and the anomaly removed; the remainder, in Thorney Rural District, becoming

Stanground North Stanground North was a civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The 2001 census recorded a population of zero. The parish, which covered open fields on a flood plain of the River Nene, has since been abolished as red ...

. In 1965 Huntingdonshire and the Soke amalgamated as

Huntingdon and Peterborough Huntingdon and Peterborough was a short-lived administrative and geographical county in East Anglia in the United Kingdom. It existed from 1965 to 1974, when it became part of Cambridgeshire. Formation The Local Government Act 1888 created fo ...

and the Isle of Ely and historic Cambridgeshire (excluding Thorney Rural District which transferred to Huntingdon and Peterborough) amalgamated as Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. In 1974 Thorney

Rural District Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...

and Old Fletton Urban District became part of the current district in the new non-metropolitan county. As part of a rural district prior to the passing of the Act, Stanground North remained parished. This redundant parish which contained no dwellings or residents was finally abolished in 2003. The ecclesiastical parish of Saint John the Baptist in the

Diocese of Ely The Diocese of Ely is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury. It is headed by the Bishop of Ely, who sits at Ely Cathedral in Ely. There is one suffragan (subordinate) bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon. The diocese now co ...

covers the whole area. However, it has now been placed under the pastoral care of the Bishop of Peterborough, acting as

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in the Diocese of Ely. Lampass Cross, a 12th-century scheduled monument, stands in the churchyard. The parish, along with its church, appears as ''Stoneground'' in the ghost stories of

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, who was vicar there from 1905–1916. Situated adjacent to the fire station, Stanground cemetery, which opened in 1890, has limited grave availability for those residents who have family already buried there. Stanground St. Johns Church of England ( Voluntary Controlled) Primary School, Oakdale Primary School, Southfields Infant and Junior schools, Heritage Park Primary School and St. Michael's Church of England ( Voluntary Aided) School are located in the area; secondary pupils attend

Stanground Academy Stanground Academy is a co-educational academy school and specialist college for sport, in the city of Peterborough in the United Kingdom. It has capacity for around 1,800 students. The school was established in 1966 as Stanground Stangrou ...

. Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service maintain a fire station, crewed day and night and equipped with Water Tender and Multistar (aerial platform), off Whittlesey Road.

History

RESURRECTION-MEN. These criminals found their way to the neighbourhood of Peterborough, and one night succeeded in taking the body of a young man, recently buried, from the church-yard of Stanground. A man was taken into custody at Peterborough on suspicion: two others, supposed to be his companions escaped. A horse and cart belonging to the party, and left at Norman Cross, was detained by the Peterborough constables. Various instruments used in the horrid traffic where found in a ditch near the bridge.

Notable people

Raymond Smythies Raymond Brewster Smythies (18 June 1824 – 19 January 1861) was an English first-class cricketer, clergyman and educator. Descended from an old Essex family, Smythies was born to the Reverend Henry Yeats Smythies in June 1824 at Stanground, H ...

(1824–1861), cricketer

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Stanground College now Stanground AcademyStanground St. Johns SchoolOakdale SchoolSouthfields SchoolBelieve in Stanground!Park Farm Neighbourhood NewsArchitecture in PeterboroughVice Consulate of Italy in Bedford
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