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'''Huntingdonshire''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ʌ|n|t|ɪ|ŋ|d|ən|ʃ|ər|,_|-|ʃ|ɪər}}; abbreviated '''Hunts''') is a [[Districts of England|local government district]] in [[Cambridgeshire]], England. 
The district had a population of 180,800 at the [[2021 United Kingdom census|2021 census]], and has an area of {{Convert|354.3|sqmi|km2|abbr=}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roskams |first1=Michael |title=Population and household estimates, England and Wales: Census 2021 - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationandhouseholdestimatesenglandandwalescensus2021 |website=www.ons.gov.uk |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=2 July 2022}}</ref> The largest towns are [[St Neots]] (33,410), [[Huntingdon]] (25,428), and [[St Ives, Cambridgeshire|St Ives]] (16,815). The district council is based in Huntingdon.

[[Historic counties of England|Historically a county]] in its own right, Huntingdonshire's boundaries were established in the Anglo-Saxon era. Huntingdonshire became an [[Administrative counties of England|administrative county]] in 1889. In 1965, it was merged with the [[Soke of Peterborough]] to form [[Huntingdon and Peterborough]], which was in turn merged with [[Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely]] in 1974 to form Cambridgeshire, of which Huntingdonshire is now a district.

==History==
{{Main|History of Huntingdonshire}}
The area corresponding to modern Huntingdonshire was first delimited in [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] times. Its boundaries have remained largely unchanged since the 10th century, although it lost its administrative function in 1965. On his accession in 1154 [[Henry II of England|Henry II]] declared all Huntingdonshire a [[Royal forest|forest]].<ref name="Loyn">[[H. R. Loyn]], ''Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest'' 2nd ed. 1991, pp. 378–382.</ref>
===Status===
[[File:Gray1824.hunts.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Map of Huntingdonshire, 1824]]
In 1889, under the [[Local Government Act 1888]] Huntingdonshire became an [[administrative county]], with the newly-formed [[Huntingdonshire County Council]] taking over administrative functions from the [[Quarter Sessions]]. The area in the north of the county forming part of the [[municipal borough]] of [[Peterborough]] became instead part of the [[Soke of Peterborough]], an administrative county in [[Northamptonshire]].
In 1965, under a recommendation of the [[Local Government Commission for England (1958–1967)|Local Government Commission for England]], Huntingdonshire was merged with the Soke of Peterborough to form [[Huntingdon and Peterborough]]. The Lieutenancy county was also merged. At the same time, [[St Neots]] was expanded westwards over the river into [[Eaton Ford]] and [[Eaton Socon]] in [[Bedfordshire]].

In 1974, under the [[Local Government Act 1972]], Huntingdon and Peterborough merged with [[Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely]] to form the new non-metropolitan county of [[Cambridgeshire]]. A Huntingdon district was created based closely on the former administrative county borders, with the exclusion of the [[Old Fletton]] urban district, which became part of the Peterborough district, as did the part of [[Norman Cross Rural District]] in Peterborough New Town. The district was renamed Huntingdonshire on 1 October 1984 by a resolution of the district council.<ref>Name change. ''The Times'', 27 April 1984.</ref>

Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are held by [[Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies]] at the County Record Office in [[Huntingdon]].

===Proposed revival of administrative county===
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (1992) considered in the 1990s the case for making a Huntingdonshire [[unitary authority]] as part of a general structural review of English local government that led to unitary authorities in two other English counties that had been abolished: [[Rutland]] and [[Herefordshire]].

The draft recommendations envisaged three possible scenarios for structural change in Cambridgeshire: the preferred option and the third option had a unitary Huntingdonshire, whilst the second option would have seen Huntingdonshire combine with [[City of Peterborough|Peterborough]] and [[Fenland District|Fenland]] to form a "Peterborough and Huntingdonshire" unitary authority. The Final recommendations of the commission for Cambridgeshire recommended no change in the status quo in Cambridgeshire.<ref name=final_cambs>Local Government Boundary Commission for England. ''Final Recommendations for the Future Local Government of Cambridgeshire.'' October 1994.</ref> The districts of Peterborough and Huntingdonshire were referred back to the commission for reconsideration in 1995. The commission recommended the creation of a Peterborough unitary authority, but proposed that Huntingdonshire remain part of the shire county of Cambridgeshire, noting that "there was no exceptional county allegiance to Huntingdonshire, as had been perceived in Rutland and Herefordshire."<ref name=cooksey>Local Government Boundary Commission for England. ''Final Recommendations on the Future Local Government of: Basildon & Thurrock, Blackburn & Blackpool, Broxtowe, Gedling & Rushcliffe, Dartford & Gravesham, Gillingham & Rochester upon Medway, Exeter, Gloucester, Halton & Warrington, Huntingdonshire & Peterborough, Northampton, Norwich, Spelthorne and the Wrekin.'' December 1995.</ref>

[[David McKie]] writing in ''[[The Guardian]]'' in October 1994 noted that "Writers-in demanded an independent Huntingdon; but MORI's more broadly based poll showed that most Huntingdonians – that is, most of [Prime Minister] [[John Major]]'s electors – were content to stay part of Cambridgeshire."<ref>"Commentary: Hatred of Harlow and bad thoughts about Basildon", David McKie, ''The Guardian'', 31 October 1994.</ref>

Ahead of the government's simplification of local government to only unitary authorities, Huntingdonshire District Council has been developing a business case for reviving Huntingdonshire as a standalone unitary authority.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 September 2025 |title=Huntingdonshire.gov.uk |url=https://www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/news/huntingdonshire-to-explore-standalone-unitary-authority |access-date=3 November 2025 |website=Huntingdonshire.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref>

===Awareness promotion===
[[File:Flag of Huntingdonshire.svg|thumb|The flag designed to represent Huntingdonshire, registered with the Flag Institute in 2009]]
After the failure to revive the unitary authority, a Huntingdonshire Society was set up to promote awareness of Huntingdonshire as a historic county and campaign for its reinstatement as an administrative and ceremonial entity. In 2002 it established an annual "Huntingdonshire Day" on 25 April, the birthday of [[Oliver Cromwell]].<ref>''And you're from where?'' The Times. 20 April 2002.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/730574/Cambridgeshire-Cromwells-own-county.html |title=Cambridgeshire: Cromwell's own county |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=19 June 2004 |author=Gavin Bell |access-date=12 January 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301095305/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/730574/Cambridgeshire-Cromwells-own-county.html |archive-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> After a campaign by the Huntingdonshire Society, the [[Flag of Huntingdonshire|county flag of Huntingdonshire]], a gold and beribboned [[hunting horn]] on a green field, was registered by the [[Flag Institute]] in June 2009.<ref name=flaginstitute>{{Cite web |title=UK Flag Registry – Huntingdonshire |url={{Flag Institute |Huntingdonshire}} |publisher=The Flag Institute |date=25 June 2009 |access-date=28 October 2017}}</ref>

==Governance==
{{See also|Huntingdonshire District Council|Huntingdonshire District Council elections}}

Huntingdonshire District Council's headquarters are located in Pathfinder House in Huntingdon. The council consists of 52 councillors. Until 2018, district council elections were held in three out of every four years, with a third of the 52 council seats coming up each time. Elections since have been held for all seats every four years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/media/2069/whole-council-elections-explanatory-document.pdf |title=Changing to Whole Council Elections – Explanatory Document |publisher=[[Huntingdonshire District Council]] |access-date=2 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607214624/http://huntingdonshire.gov.uk/media/2069/whole-council-elections-explanatory-document.pdf |archive-date=7 June 2017}}</ref> The [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative party]] had a majority on the council from 1976 until 2022, after which a joint administration took control of the council.

==Sports==
Huntingdonshire is the birthplace of [[bandy]], now an IOC accepted sport.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.internationalbandy.com/viewNavMenu.do?menuID=4 
|title=Olympic |website=[[Federation of International Bandy]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003055143/http://www.internationalbandy.com/viewNavMenu.do?menuID=4 |archive-date=3 October 2009}}</ref> According to documents from 1813, Bury Fen Bandy Club was undefeated for 100 years. A club member, [[Charles Goodman Tebbutt|Charles Tebbutt]], wrote the first official rules in 1882 and helped to spread the sport to other countries.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/articles/2006/02/15/bandy_sport_feature.shtml |title=Cambridgeshire> History> local history> A handy Bandy guide... |publisher=BBC News |date=24 September 2014 |author=Helen Burchell}}</ref>

[[Huntingdonshire County Cricket Club]] is taken to be one of the 20 [[minor counties of English and Welsh cricket]], but it has never played in the [[Minor Counties Championship]]. It has its own Cricket Board and played in the [[Friends Provident Trophy|English domestic one-day competition]] from 1999 to 2003.The county played seven List A matches during this period, with the final List A match it played coming against [[Cheshire County Cricket Club|Cheshire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/cgi-bin/scorecard_oracle_reveals_results.cgi |title=List A matches played by Huntingdonshire County Cricket Club|publisher=Cricket Archive|access-date=24 September 2022}}</ref>

==Media==
In terms of television, Huntingdonshire is served by [[BBC East]] and [[ITV Anglia]] broadcasting from [[Sandy Heath transmitting station]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Sandy_Heath|title=Full Freeview on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=14 April 2024}}</ref>

Radio stations for the area are [[BBC Radio Cambridgeshire]], [[Heart East]], [[Greatest Hits Radio East]], [[Star Radio (Cambridge and Ely)|Star Radio]] and [[Huntingdon Community Radio|HCR FM]], a community based station that broadcast from its studios in [[Huntingdon]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hcrfm.co.uk/|title=Huntingdon Community Radio |access-date=14 April 2024}}</ref> 

''The Hunts Post'' is the local weekly newspaper.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-eang/hunts-post/|title=The Hunts Post|date=12 March 2014|website=British Papers|accessdate=14 April 2024}}</ref>

==Towns and villages==
[[File:Huntingdonshire population pyramid.svg|thumb|Huntingdonshire population pyramid]]
===Towns===
*[[Godmanchester]]
*[[Huntingdon]]
*[[Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire|Kimbolton]]
*[[Ramsey, Cambridgeshire|Ramsey]]
*[[St Ives, Huntingdonshire|St Ives]]
*[[St Neots]]

===Hamlets and villages===
*[[Abbots Ripton]], [[Abbotsley]], [[Alconbury]], [[Alconbury Weston]], [[Alwalton]]
*[[Barham, Huntingdonshire|Barham]], [[Bury, Cambridgeshire|Bury]], [[Bluntisham]], [[Brampton, Cambridgeshire|Brampton]], [[Brington, Huntingdonshire|Brington]], [[Broughton, Cambridgeshire|Broughton]], [[Buckden, Cambridgeshire|Buckden]], [[Buckworth]], [[Bythorn]]
*[[Catworth]], [[Chesterton, Huntingdonshire|Chesterton]], [[Colne, Cambridgeshire|Colne]], [[Connington]], [[Coppingford]], [[Covington, Huntingdonshire|Covington]]
*[[Denton and Caldecote]], [[Diddington]]
*[[Earith]], [[Easton, Cambridgeshire|Easton]], [[Eaton Ford]], [[Eaton Socon]], [[Ellington, Cambridgeshire|Ellington]], [[Elton, Cambridgeshire|Elton]], [[Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire|Eynesbury]]
*[[Farcet]], [[Fenstanton]], [[Folksworth and Washingley]]
*[[Glatton]], [[Grafham, Cambridgeshire|Grafham]], [[Great Gransden]], [[Great Gidding|Great, Little and Steeple Gidding]], [[Great Paxton]], [[Great Staughton]]
*[[Haddon, Cambridgeshire|Haddon]], [[Hail Weston]], [[Hamerton]], [[Hartford, Cambridgeshire|Hartford]], [[Hemingford Abbots]], [[Hemingford Grey]], [[Hilton, Huntingdonshire|Hilton]], [[Holme, Cambridgeshire|Holme]], [[Holywell, Cambridgeshire|Holywell]], [[Houghton, Cambridgeshire|Houghton]]
*[[Keyston]], [[Kings Ripton]]
*[[Leighton Bromswold]], [[Little Paxton]]
*[[Molesworth, Cambridgeshire|Molesworth]], [[Morborne]]
*[[Needingworth]]
*[[Oldhurst]], [[Old Weston]], [[Orton Longueville]], [[Orton Waterville]]
*[[Perry, Cambridgeshire|Perry]], [[Pidley]]
*[[Ramsey St Mary's]], Ramsey Forty Foot, Ramsey Mereside, Ramsey Heights
*[[Sawtry]], [[Spaldwick]], [[Somersham]], [[Southhoe and Midloe]], [[Stibbington]], [[Stilton]], [[Stow Longa]]
*[[Tetworth]], [[Tilbrook]], [[Toseland, Cambridgeshire|Toseland]], [[The Offords]], [[The Raveleys]], [[The Stukeleys]]
*[[Upton, Huntingdonshire|Upton]], [[Upwood]]
*[[Wansford, Cambridgeshire|Wansford]], [[Warboys]], [[Waresley]], [[Water Newton]], [[Winwick, Cambridgeshire|Winwick]], [[Wistow, Cambridgeshire|Wistow]], [[Woodhurst]], [[Woodwalton]], [[Woolley, Cambridgeshire|Woolley]], [[Wyton, Cambridgeshire|Wyton]]
*[[Yaxley, Cambridgeshire|Yaxley]], [[Yelling, Cambridgeshire|Yelling]]

==Parishes==
{{also|Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire}}
The whole district is divided into [[civil parish]]es. The parish councils for Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Ramsey, St Ives and St Neots take the style "town council". Some of the smaller parishes have a [[parish meeting]] rather than a parish council.<ref>{{cite web |title=Parish councils contact details |url=https://democracy.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/moderngov/mgParishCouncilDetails.aspx?bcr=1 |website=Huntingdonshire District Council |access-date=15 June 2023}}</ref>

=== Medieval parishes ===
Chapelries are listed in italics. Parishes are listed by the four [[Hundreds of Huntingdonshire]].
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!Parishes
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![[Hurstingstone (hundred)|Hurstingstone]]
|[[Abbots Ripton]] • [[Bluntisham]] (''[[Earith]] • [[Earith|Earith Bridge]]'') • [[Broughton, Cambridgeshire|Broughton]] • [[Bury, Cambridgeshire|Bury]] • [[The Raveleys|Great Raveley]]<sup>1</sup> • [[Great Stukeley]] • [[Hartford, Cambridgeshire|Hartford]] • [[Holywell, Cambridgeshire|Holywell]] cum [[Needingworth]] • [[Houghton, Cambridgeshire|Houghton]] • [[Kings Ripton]] • [[Little Stukeley]] • [[Ramsey, Cambridgeshire|Ramsey]] • [[Somersham]] ([[Colne, Cambridgeshire|''Colne'']] • ''[[Pidley cum Fenton]]'') • [[St Ives, Cambridgeshire|St Ives]] (''[[Old Hurst]]'' • ''[[Woodhurst]]'') • [[Warboys]] • [[Wistow, Cambridgeshire|Wistow]] (''[[Little Raveley]]'' • ''[[Upwood]]'') • [[Wyton, Cambridgeshire|Wyton]]
|-
![[Leightonstone]]
|[[Alconbury]] • [[Alconbury Weston]]<sup>1</sup> • [[Brampton, Cambridgeshire|Brampton]] • [[Brington, Cambridgeshire|Brington]] • [[Buckworth]] • ''[[Bythorn]]''<sup>4</sup> • [[Coppingford]] • [[Covington, Cambridgeshire|Covington]] • [[Easton, Cambridgeshire|Easton]] • [[Ellington, Cambridgeshire|Ellington]] • [[Grafham, Cambridgeshire|Grafham]] • [[Catworth|Great Catworth]] • [[Great Gidding]] • [[Hamerton]] • [[Keyston]] • [[Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire|Kimbolton]] • [[Leighton Bromswold]] • [[Little Gidding]] • [[Molesworth, Cambridgeshire|Molesworth]] • [[Old Weston]] • [[Spaldwick]] • [[Steeple Gidding]] • [[Stow Longa]] ([[Barham, Huntingdonshire|''Barham'']]) • [[Swineshead, Bedfordshire|Swineshead]]<sup>2</sup> • [[Thurning, Northamptonshire|Thurning]]<sup>3</sup> • [[Upton, Huntingdonshire|Upton]] • [[Woolley, Cambridgeshire|Woolley]]
|-
![[Norman Cross Hundred|Norman Cross]]
|[[Alwalton]] • Botolph Bridge • [[Caldecote, Huntingdonshire|Caldecote]] • [[Chesterton, Huntingdonshire|Chesterton]] • [[Conington, Huntingdonshire|Conington]] • [[Denton, Cambridgeshire|Denton]] • [[Elton, Cambridgeshire|Elton]] • [[Fletton]] • [[Folksworth]] • [[Glatton]] ([[Holme, Cambridgeshire|''Holme'']]) • [[Haddon, Cambridgeshire|Haddon]] • [[Morborne]] • [[Orton Longueville]] • [[Orton Waterville]] • [[Sawtry|Sawtry All Saints]] • [[Sawtry Abbey|Sawtry Judith]] • [[Sawtry|Sawtry St Andrew]] • [[Sibson-cum-Stibbington]] • [[Stanground]] (''[[Farcet]]'') • [[Stilton]] • [[Washingley]] • [[Water Newton]] • [[Woodston, Peterborough|Woodston]] • [[Woodwalton]] • [[Yaxley, Cambridgeshire|Yaxley]]
|-
!Toseland
|[[Abbotsley]] • [[Buckden, Cambridgeshire|Buckden]] • [[Diddington]] • [[Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire|Eynesbury]] • [[Fenstanton]] ([[Hilton, Cambridgeshire|''Hilton'']]) • [[Godmanchester]] • [[Great Gransden]] • [[Great Paxton]] (''[[Little Paxton]]'' • [[Toseland, Cambridgeshire|''Toseland'']]) • [[Great Staughton]] • [[Hemingford Abbots]] • [[Hemingford Grey]] • [[Offord Cluny]] • [[Offord D'Arcy]] • [[Southoe]] (''[[Hail Weston]]'') • [[St Neots]] • [[Waresley]] • [[Yelling, Cambridgeshire|Yelling]]
|-
!''not in a hundred''
|Huntingdon All Saints • Huntingdon Holy Trinity • Huntingdon St Andrew • Huntingdon St Benedict • Huntingdon St Botolph • Huntingdon St Clement • Huntingdon St Edmund • Huntingdon St George • Huntingdon St Germain • Huntingdon St John the Baptist • Huntingdon St Lawrence • Huntingdon St Martin • Huntingdon St Mary • Huntingdon St Michael • Huntingdon St Nicholas • Huntingdon St Peter
|}
<sup>1</sup>no record of a church having ever existed; <sup>2</sup>now in Bedfordshire; <sup>3</sup>now in Northamptonshire; <sup>4</sup>a chapelry to Broughton in Hurstingstone hundred 

==Notable people==
In order of birth:
*Henry of Saltrey, a Huntingdonshire [[Cistercians|Cistercian]] monk, wrote ''[[Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii]]'' (Treatise on the Purgatory of St Patrick) in about 1180–1184.
*Sir [[William Papworth]] (1331–1414) of [[Grafham, Cambridgeshire|Grafham]] and [[Papworth St. Agnes]] was a member of five 14th-century parliaments.
*[[Catherine of Aragon]] (1485–1536), previously Queen of England, died in confinement at [[Kimbolton Castle]].
*[[Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk]] and his brother [[Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk]], nephews of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], died of [[sweating sickness]] at [[Buckden Palace|Buckden Towers]] within an hour of each other on 14 July 1551.
*[[Nicholas Ferrar]] (1592–1637), scholar, courtier and cleric, spent the last eleven years of his life at the [[Little Gidding community]], inspiration of the fourth poem in [[T. S. Eliot]]'s ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
*[[Philip Nye]] (1595–1672), [[Independent (religion)|Independent]] theologian, became the incumbent of [[Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire|Kimbolton]] and an adviser to Cromwell.
*[[Oliver Cromwell]] (1599–1658), [[Lord Protector]] of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653–1658, was educated at Huntingdon Grammar School.
*[[Richard Astry]] (c. 1632–1714) was an English [[antiquary]]. 
*[[Samuel Pepys]] (1633–1703), [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) and [[diary|diarist]], attended Huntingdon Grammar School.
*William Sparrow (1641–1729), cut the famous [[turf maze]] at [[Hilton, Cambridgeshire|Hilton]] in 1660.
*[[Alice Curwen|Alice and Thomas Curwen]] were active in the county as Quaker preachers in 1677–1678.<ref>Michael Mullett: "Curwen, Thomas (c. 1610–1680)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6968 Retrieved 17 November 2015.]</ref>
*[[Ann Jebb]] (1735–1812), political reformer and radical writer, was born at [[Kings Ripton]].
*[[William Henry Fellowes]] (1769–1837) of [[Ramsey Abbey]], was a longstanding MP for Huntingdon and then Huntingdonshire.
*[[Olinthus Gregory]] (1774–1841), mathematician and editor, was born at [[Yaxley, Cambridgeshire|Yaxley]].
*[[Robert Fox (antiquarian)|Robert Fox]] (1798–1843), antiquary and local historian, was born and died at Godmanchester.
*[[Charles Bowen Cooke]] (1859–1920), locomotive engineer, was born at [[Orton Longueville]].
*[[Henry Royce]] (1863–1933), pioneering car manufacturer and founder of [[Rolls-Royce Limited]], was born in [[Alwalton]].
*[[Lucy M. Boston]] (1892–1990), children's writer, lived in Huntingdonshire from 1937 until her death, and set the ''[[Green Knowe]]'' series there.
*[[Josef Jakobs]] (1898–1941), German spy captured in [[Ramsey, Cambridgeshire|Ramsey Hollow]], Huntingdonshire in 1941
*[[Michael Lawrence (writer)|Michael Lawrence]] (born 1943), children's writer, is best known for the ''Jiggy McCue'' series.
*[[John Major]] (born 1943), politician and Prime Minister (1990–1997), was MP for [[Huntingdonshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Huntingdonshire]] from 1979 to 2001, and still resides in the county at [[Great Stukeley]].
*[[John Butcher (British politician)|John Butcher]] (1946–2006), Conservative MP and junior minister, was raised in Huntingdonshire and attended [[Hinchingbrooke School|Huntingdon Grammar School]].
*[[Terry Reid]] (born 1949), rock musician, grew up in [[Holywell, Cambridgeshire|Holywell]].
*[[Chris Morris (satirist)|Chris Morris]] (born 1962), satirist known for the television series ''[[Brass Eye]]'' and ''[[The Day Today]]''
*[[Jason Ablewhite]] (born 1972) former leader of Huntingdonshire District Council, former [[Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner]]

==Arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
|image = Coat of Arms of Huntingdonshire.svg
|escutcheon = Barry wavy Argent and Azure on a lozenge throughout Vert between in chief three garbs one and two and in base a cornucopia a fess embattled all Or.
|crest = On a wreath of the Argent and Azure a lion rampant Gules gorged with a collar flory counter-flory Or and supporting a staff proper flying therefrom a banner Vert charged with a hunting horn stringed Or.
|motto = Labore Omnia Florent (By Labour Everything Prospers)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://civicheraldry.co.uk/east_of_england.html |title=East of England Region |publisher=Civic Heraldry of England |access-date=9 March 2021}}</ref>
|notes = Originally granted to Huntingdonshire County Council on 9 April 1937.}}

==See also==
*[[Flag of Huntingdonshire]]
*[[List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)#Huntingdonshire]]
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire|List of Lord Lieutenants of Huntingdonshire]]
*[[High Sheriff of Huntingdonshire|List of High Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire]]
*[[Custos Rotulorum of Huntingdonshire]] – Keepers of the Rolls
*[[Huntingdonshire (UK Parliament constituency)]] -Historical list of MPs for Huntingdonshire constituency

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.huntsdc.gov.uk/ Huntingdonshire District Council] – local government information
*[http://wikishire.co.uk/map/#hunts/base=outline Map of Huntingdonshire] on Wikishire
*[http://www.huntingdonshire.info/ Huntingdonshire] – general informative
*[http://abcounties.com/huntingdonshire/ The Huntingdonshire Society] – dedicated to the traditional county and campaigning for its reinstatement as an administrative entity
*[http://abcounties.com/huntingdonshire/the-county-flag/ The Huntingdonshire Flag]
*[http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/huntingdonshire.html The Lost Pubs Project]: Lost and closed pubs of Huntingdonshire.
*[http://www.cambridgemilitaryhistory.com/ Cambridge Military History Blog]: A dialogue focused on the history of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire from a military perspective

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