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* [[Brampton Wood]] | * [[Brampton Wood]] | ||
* [[File:HH icon.png|Historic house]] [[Buckden Towers]] | * Bridge Chapel, [[St Ives, Huntingdonshire|St Ives]] | ||
* [[File:HH icon.png|Historic house]] [[Elton | * [[File:HH icon.png|Historic house]] [[Buckden]] Towers | ||
* Castle Hill, [[Huntingdon]] | |||
* Oliver Cromwell's birthplace, [[Huntingdon]] | |||
* [[File:HH icon.png|Historic house]] [[Elton]] Hall | |||
* [[Gamsey Wood]] Nature Reserve | * [[Gamsey Wood]] Nature Reserve | ||
* [[Grafham Water Nature Reserve | * [[Grafham Water]] Nature Reserve | ||
* [[Great Gransden]] Post Mill | * [[Great Gransden]] Post Mill | ||
* [[File:HH icon.png|Historic house]] [[Hinchingbrooke House]] | * River [[Great Ouse]] | ||
* [[File:NTE icon.png|National Trust]] [[Houghton Mill]] | * [[File:HH icon.png|Historic house]] [[Hinchingbrooke House]] | ||
* [[File:HH icon.png|Historic house]] [[Kimbolton | * [[File:NTE icon.png|National Trust]] [[Houghton Mill]] | ||
* [[File:HH icon.png|Historic house]] [[Kimbolton]] Castle | |||
* [[File:HR icon.svg|Heritage railway]] [[Nene Valley Railway]] | * [[File:HR icon.svg|Heritage railway]] [[Nene Valley Railway]] | ||
* [[Ouse Valley Way]] | * [[Ouse Valley Way]] | ||
* [[Paxton]] Pits Nature Reserve | * [[Paxton]] Pits Nature Reserve | ||
* [[File:NTE icon.png|National Trust]] [[Ramsey | * [[Portholme]] meadow, between Huntingdon and [[Godmanchester]] | ||
* [[File:NTE icon.png|National Trust]] [[Ramsey, Huntingdonshire|Ramsey]] Abbey | |||
==Famous people of Huntingdonshire== | ==Famous people of Huntingdonshire== | ||
* '''Oliver Cromwell''' (1599-1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653-58 | * '''Oliver Cromwell''' (1599-1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653-58 | ||
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* ''Samuel Pepys'' (1633-1703), Second Secretary to the Admiralty and diarist | * ''Samuel Pepys'' (1633-1703), Second Secretary to the Admiralty and diarist | ||
* ''Henry Royce'' (1863-1933) founder of Rolls Royce | * ''Henry Royce'' (1863-1933) founder of Rolls Royce | ||
[[File:Cooper, Oliver Cromwell.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Oliver Cromwell]] | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 21:57, 17 August 2010
| Huntingdonshire United Kingdom | |
 St Ives | |
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| Labore omnia florent (By labour everything prospers) | |
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| Area: | 359 square miles |
| Population: | 211,776 |
| County town: | Huntingdon |
| Biggest town: | St Neots |
| County flower: | Water-violet [1] |
Huntingdonshire is a county between the Midlands and East Anglia. It is one of the smallest counties in Britain; south of the forth only Rutland and Middlesex are smaller.
The county is roughly a rhombus shape, lying between bordering on Northamptonshire to the north and northwest, Bedfordshire to the southwest and Cambridgeshire. The county town, Huntingdon, lies at the centre of the county.
Geography
Large areas of the county are extremely low-lying and Holme Fen is notable for being the United Kingdom's lowest point, at 9 feet below sea level. The county's highest point is Boring Field, near Covington at 263 feet above sea level; the lowest highest point of all the counties'.
The Great Ouse cuts across the county, and three of the county's four towns stand on its banks. The Great Ouse enters Huntingdonshire at St Neots, flowing northward then eastward to Huntingdon and on to St Ives before leaving the county at Earith. At Earith the Ouse is briefly tidal, taking its tide from the Bedford Rivers
The A1, on the route of the Great North Road, passes through Huntingdonshire close to its southernmost to its northernmost points and, the A14 crossing from east to west, Huntingdonshire has become a major transport hub, with development close to the major routes.
Southern Huntingdonshire has its main townscapes by the main roads, but away from those routes it is a rich agricultural landscape characterised by farming and picturesque villages.
North of Huntingdon lies the county's share of the Great Fen. Much of the land here is below sea level and the landscape in the northeast in particular presents a vast, flat appearance. There are many small, pretty hamlets and villages scattered across the fen, the only town of any size south of the Peterborough suburbs being Ramsey.
Sports
Huntingdonshire is the birthplace of bandy, now an IOC accepted sport.[1] According to documents from 1813, Bury Fen Bandy Club was undefeated for 100 years and it was a member of the club, Charles Tebbutt, who wrote down the first official rules in 1882 and helped to spread the sport's popularity to many countries.[2]
Towns and villages
Major towns
Falling partly within Huntingdonshire:
- Peterborough suburbs including Fletton and The Ortons
Villages
- Abbots Ripton, Abbotsley, Alconbury, Alconbury Weston, Alwalton
- Barham, Bury, Bluntisham, Brampton, Brington, Broughton, Buckden, Buckworth, Bythorn
- Catworth, Chesterton, Colne, Connington, Coppingford, Covington
- Denton and Caldecote, Diddington
- Earith, Easton, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon, Ellington, Elton, Eynesbury
- Farcet, Fenstanton, Folksworth & Washingley
- Glatton, Godmanchester, Grafham, Great Gransden, Great, Little and Steeple Gidding, Great Paxton, Great Staughton
- Haddon, Hail Weston, Hamerton, Hartford, Hemingford Abbots, Hemingford Grey Hilton, Holme, Holywell, Houghton
- Keyston, Kimbolton, Kings Ripton
- Leighton Bromswold, Little Paxton
- Molesworth, Morborne
- Needingworth
- The Offords, Oldhurst, Old Weston
- Perry, Pidley
- Ramsey St Mary's , The Raveleys
- Sawtry, Spaldwick, Somersham, Southhoe and Midloe, Stanground, Stibbington, Stilton, Stow Longa, The Stukeleys, Swineshead
- Tetworth, Toseland
- Upton, Upwood
- Wansford, Warboys, Waresley, Water Newton, Winwick, Wistow, Woodhurst, Woodwalton, Wooley, Wyton
- Yaxley, Yelling
Places of interest
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- Brampton Wood
- Bridge Chapel, St Ives
Buckden Towers- Castle Hill, Huntingdon
- Oliver Cromwell's birthplace, Huntingdon
- Elton Hall
- Gamsey Wood Nature Reserve
- Grafham Water Nature Reserve
- Great Gransden Post Mill
- River Great Ouse
- Hinchingbrooke House
Houghton Mill- Kimbolton Castle
Nene Valley Railway- Ouse Valley Way
- Paxton Pits Nature Reserve
- Portholme meadow, between Huntingdon and Godmanchester
- Ramsey Abbey
Famous people of Huntingdonshire
- Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653-58
- Peter Foxhall (1941- ), Australian clergyman, evangelist and author
- John Major (1943- ), Prime Minister 1990-1997
- Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), Second Secretary to the Admiralty and diarist
- Henry Royce (1863-1933) founder of Rolls Royce
Notes
- ↑ http://www.internationalbandy.com/viewNavMenu.do?menuID=4 internationalbrandy.com
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/articles/2006/02/15/bandy_sport_feature.shtml bbc.co.uk
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