Huntingdon

This article is about the town in England. For other uses, see Huntingdon (disambiguation).

Huntingdon
Market town
Huntingdon Town Hall and The Thinking Soldier War Memorial
Huntingdon is located in Cambridgeshire
Huntingdon
Huntingdon
Location within Cambridgeshire
Population25,428 (2021 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceTL245725
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Areas of the town
List
  • Hartford
  • Sapley
  • Stukeley Meadows
  • Town Centre
Post townHUNTINGDON
Postcode districtPE28, PE29
Dialling code01480
PoliceCambridgeshire
FireCambridgeshire
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cambridgeshire
52°20′11″N 0°10′18″W / 52.3364°N 0.1717°W / 52.3364; -0.1717

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. The former Conservative Prime Minister (1990–1997) John Major served as its MP from 1979 until his retirement in 2001.

  1. ^ "Huntingdon". City population. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference EB1911 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).