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53: 29: 60: 606:, was killed at Connington North level crossing, when his car was hit by a train on 16 October 1948. On 1 March 1948, a train struck a lorry at Connington North, causing six deaths. The Connington North level crossing is 68 miles 28 chains from King's Cross on the East Coast Main Line. The crossing has three lines. 424:
was constructed to Class "A" standards to support heavy bombers in 1943, as it was to be used by the US Army Air Forces. The 457th Bombardment Group (Heavy) arrived on 21 January 1944. The recognisable tail code of the 457th was the "triangle U" painted on the vertical stabilizers of the Boeing B-17
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The Domesday Book also records that there were 27 households at Conington. Estimates for the average size of a household at that time range from 3.5 to 5.0 people. These yield population estimates of 94–135. The survey records there was an area of 15 ploughlands at Conington in 1086. In addition to
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Flying Fortresses which operated from the air base. The 457th Bomb Group operated from RAF Glatton from January 1944 until 20 April 1945, when it completed its 237th and last combat mission at the conclusion of the war. In All Saints' Church, Conington is a memorial to the 457th Bomb Group.
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in the Domesday Book of 1086, when there was just one manor at Conington; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £9 and the rent was the same in 1086.
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as its second tier. Conington lies in the district ward of Sawtry. It is represented on the district council by two councillors as part of the electoral division of
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population of Conington in the period 1801 to 1901 ranged between 154 in 1801 and 319 in 1851. The subsequent ten-year census results were as follows:
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the arable land, there were some 40 acres (16 hectares) of meadow. The total tax assessment for the manor at Conington was nine
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As a civil parish, Conington has an elected parish council. It consists of five members. Conington was in the historic and
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of Huntingdonshire until 1965. From 1965, it became part of the new administrative county of
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In the Second World War, Conington was located next to Royal Air Force Station Glatton.
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of Conington was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for the antiquary
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ODNB: Stuart Handley, "Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, first baronet (1571–1631)"
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M. Clare Loughlin-Chow, "Bowdler, Henrietta Maria (1750–1830)"
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All population census figures have been taken from the report
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in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written
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Bedford & Huntingdon (St Neots & Biggleswade)
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Conington, South Cambridgeshire

Conington is located in Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
OS grid reference
TL176860
District
Huntingdonshire
Shire county
Cambridgeshire
Region
East
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Peterborough
Postcode district
PE7
Police
Cambridgeshire
Fire
Cambridgeshire
Ambulance
East of England
UK Parliament
North West Cambridgeshire
UK
England
Cambridgeshire

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