Stibbington is a village in Cambridgeshire, England,[1] located approximately 6 miles (10 km) west of Peterborough city centre in the civil parish of Sibson-cum-Stibbington.
It is situated in the far north-west corner of Huntingdonshire, which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire, as well as a historic county of England.
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.
[4] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 18 households at Stibbington.
The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands.
[4] The tax assessment in the Domesday Book was known as geld or danegeld and was a type of land-tax based on the hide or ploughland.
A parish council is responsible for providing and maintaining a variety of local services including allotments and a cemetery; grass cutting and tree planting within public open spaces such as a village green or playing fields.
For Stibbington the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council which has administration buildings in Cambridge.
[12] Stibbington is part of the electoral division of Sawtry & Stilton[10] and is represented on the county council by two councillors.
The church[14] stands about a quarter of a mile east of the Great North Road near the ford to Sutton.
Stibbington House[16] lies between the Elton Road and the Nene, and was the residence of Sir Stephen Hastings.
There is a popular environmental residential centre at Stibbington that hosts a variety of courses for primary age children.