Little Stukeley
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| Population | 1,340 (2011 Census including Great Stukeley) |
| OS grid reference | TL209756 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | PE28 |
| Dialling code | 01480 |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
Little Stukeley is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. Little Stukeley lies approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Huntingdon. Little Stukeley is in the civil parish of The Stukeleys. Little Stukeley is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.
The Alconbury Weald development is taking place near Little Stukeley.
In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, since the 12th century, has become known as the Domesday Book. Starting with the king himself, for each landholder within a county there is a list of their estates or manors; and, for each manor, there is a summary of the resources of the manor, the amount of annual rent that was collected by the lord of the manor both in 1066 and in 1086, together with the taxable value.
Little Stukeley was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Hurstingstone in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Stivecle in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there was just one manor at Little Stukeley; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £6 and the rent was the same in 1086.
The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 19 households at Little Stukeley. There is no consensus about the average size of a household at that time; estimates range from 3.5 to 5.0 people per household. Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Little Stukeley in 1086 is that it was within the range of 66 and 95 people.
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