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This is the Umbrella Project Page for HuntingdonshireEngland.
Huntingdonshire
- Administrative centre Huntingdon
- County Flower - Water-violet
- People from Huntingdonshire are called - ?
Huntingdonshire (abbreviated Hunts.) is an historic county of England covering the area around Huntingdon, St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots, and Ramsey. Huntingdonshire lies between Northamptonshire to the Northwest & North, Bedfordshire to the Southwest and Cambridgeshire to the East. It is a small shire. After Rutland it is the smallest county in England. It is also a very flat county. The northern part is dominated by the fens, which are in places below sea level. The south has low, green hills.
Between 1889 and 1965 it formed an administrative county. Since 1974 it has been administered as a non-metropolitan district within the non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire.
Huntingdonshire is currently a "district" as far as local government boundaries are concerned but in the minds of everyone who lives there it is still a county.
Huntingdonshire is largely a rural county. The soil of the fens in the north was once under water. Now it provides some of the best growing soil in the land. The old county council's motto is very appropriate: "Labore Omnia Florent". Without the work of drainage engineers the fields of much of Huntingdonshire would be an inland sea (looking much as it does whenever the Great Ouse floods).
Districts of Huntingdonshire
Ramsey (Blue)
- 1.Norman Cross
- 2. Ramsey
- 3. Huntingstone
Huntingdon (Pink)
- 4 Huntingdon
- 5 Toseland
Major towns
- Huntingdon
- Ramsey
- St Ives
- St Neots
For Information about research in the County, including lists of people of renown connected to Huntingdonshire and Families Researched on Geni go to Huntingdonshire - Family Heads
For Historical information about Huntingdonshire visit Historic Huntingdonshire Link to follow - including connections to Historical figures, Gentry and political people connected with Huntingdonshire.
The following people on Geni offer assistance -
- C. June Barnes Curator
If you have Huntingdonshire connections please join the project and if you live in Huntingdonshire and are prepared to offer advice or help of any kind please add yourself to the list above.
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- Add any documents of interest using the menu at the top right of the page, and then add a link to the document in the text under the heading below. If you do not know how to do this please contact one of the other collaborators to assist you.
Please do not add the profiles off all your Huntingdonshire born ancestors to this project or the People connected to Huntingdonshire project. Rather add the earliest known person of a Huntingdonshire family to the Huntingdonshire - Family Heads project.
Parish Map
from The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers 1984.
See http://www.geni.com/photo/view/4560155096930045739?photo_id=6000000019096481001 - open full view.