FENSTANTON, a parish in the hundred of TOSELAND,
county of HUNTINGDON, 2 miles (S. byE.) from
St. Ives, containing 776 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage with the perpetual curacy of Hilton
annexed, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 11. 11. 5., and
in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity
Hall, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Peter
and St. Paul. Joseph Ellis, in 1728, endowed a school
with about £ 10 a year, for teaching four children of
Fen-Stanton, and four of Fen-Drayton. The river Ouse
runs through the parish.