STANDGROUND, a parish in the hundred of
NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON, 1 mile (s.E.
by S.) from Peterborough, containing, with the chapelry
of Farcett, 1024 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £6. 6. 10.,
and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of
Emanuel College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated
to St. John the Baptist.