STAUGHTON (GREAT), a parish comprising the
divisions of North Side and South Side, in the hundred
of TOSELAND, county of HUNTINGDON, 3 miles (S.E.
by S.) from Kimbolton, and containing 1173 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £20, and in the patronage of the President
and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford. The church
is dedicated to St. Andrew. There are two small bequests
in support of a school, by Elizabeth Conyers, in
1709, and John Poachby, in 1727.