KINGSTON, a parish in the hundred of LONGSTOW,
county of CAMBRIDGE, 8 miles (E.S.E.) from Caxton,
containing 278 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, rated in the
king's books at £11. 15. 5., and in the patronage of
the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge.
The church is dedicated to All Saints and St. Andrew.
Here were anciently a market and two fairs. A charity
school was founded, in 1702, by Mr. Francis Todd,
who endowed it with a rent-charge of about £ 13.