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Huntingdonshire was formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln, but in 1837 was transferred to Ely. In 1291 it constituted an archdeaconry , comprising the deaneries of Huntingdon, St Ives, Yaxley and Leightonstone, and the divisions remained unchanged until the creation of the deanery of Kimbolton in 1879.
Huntingdonshire (/ ˈ h ʌ n t ɪ ŋ d ən ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪər /; abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England, which was historically a county in its own right.
Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver Cromwell was born there in 1599 [2] and became one of its Members of Parliament (MP) in 1628.
Hundreds of Huntingdonshire in 1830. Between Anglo-Saxon times and the nineteenth century, Huntingdonshire was divided for administrative purposes into four roughly equally sized hundreds, plus the borough of Huntingdon. Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters.
Huntingdonshire was part of the Kingdom of East Anglia, inhabited by a group known as the Gyrwas from about the 6th century. [citation needed] It fell to the Danes in the 9th century, but was re-conquered under Edward the Elder in 915.
Military history of Huntingdonshire (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "History of Huntingdonshire" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
On the creation of the county, an order under the Police Act 1964 came into force creating the Mid-Anglia Constabulary by merging the Cambridge City Police, Cambridgeshire County Constabulary, Isle of Ely Constabulary, Huntingdonshire Constabulary, and the Peterborough Combined Police Force (created in 1947 from the Liberty of Peterborough Constabulary and the Peterborough City Police).
Huntingdonshire was a parliamentary constituency covering the county of Huntingdonshire in England. It was represented by two members of Parliament in the House of Commons of England until 1707, then in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and then in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885.