Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

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Huntingdon is a town in Cambridgeshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Huntingdon within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Huntingdon in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Huntingdon.-- mun. bor. and co. town of Huntingdonshire, on left bank of river Ouse (which connects it with the port of Lynn), 19 miles S. of Peterborough and 59 N. of London, 1116 ac., pop. 4228; 2 Banks. Market-day, Saturday; is the Huntantun of the Saxons. The Roman road, Ermine Street, passes through the town, which is connected with Godmanchester by a bridge. Huntingdon has large breweries, carriage works, and mfrs. of patent perforated bricks; while there is also a consnderable trade in agricultural produce, seeds, wool, and timber. Famous nurseries for trees, shrubs, flowers, and plants of every description are in the neighbourhood. Huntingdon was the birth-place of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658). Huntingon returned 1 member to Parliament until 1885.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Huntingdon (or Southern) Division, The, parliamentary division of Huntingdonshire, pop. 27, 412.

Huntingdon in the Domesday Book

A village in Hurstingstone hundred, in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Ten manors recorded in Domesday.

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