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Longstanton is a village in South Cambridgeshire, England, 6 miles northwest of Cambridge city centre. ==History== For most of its history Longstanton was split into two parishes: the larger Long Stanton All Saints to the north and the smaller Long Stanton St. Michael to the south. The two may have been seen as distinct by 1086, when the Domesday Book referred to a "Stantone" and a "Stantune", and were certainly so by 1240, distinguished in ''Liber Memorandorum Ecclesie de Bernewelle'' as "Stanton" and "the other Stanton". The two villages were not formally amalgamated until 1953. The first known reference to the village, dating back to 1070 AD, calls the village "Stantonia" and describes it as "an enclosed settlement of stoney ground."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Friends of All Saints Church Longstanton;Our History )〕 By the time of the Domesday Book "Stantone" was one of the most populous villages in the area, with 67 peasant tenants being recorded.〔 By 1563 this had dwindled to 42 families, and the settlement had been overtaken in size by other nearby villages such as Chesterton. The population fluctuated between 400 and 600 for several centuries, until the village was transformed by the opening of RAF Oakington in 1940, resulting in the building of three new housing estates in the village and a trebling of the population. The airbase became an army barracks in 1975; on its closure in 1999 most of the housing was sold to private owners. The population of the village was recorded as 1700 by the 2001 census〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Area: Longstanton (Ward), Key Figures for 2001 Census )〕 and it had increased to 2700 by the 2011 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Area: Longstanton (Ward), Key Figures for 2011 Census )〕 The barracks buildings were used from 2000 to 2010 as an Immigration Reception Centre by the Home Office. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Longstanton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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