Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire
Non-metropolitan district
Huntingdon, the historic county town of Huntingdonshire
Huntingdonshire shown within Cambridgeshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	England
Region	East of England
Non-metropolitan county	Cambridgeshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Huntingdon
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Huntingdonshire District Council
• Leadership	Leader & Cabinet
• MPs	Jonathan Djanogly Shailesh Vara
Area
• Total	352.3 sq mi (912.5 km2)
• Rank	34th (of 296)
Population  (2022)
• Total	184,052
• Rank	112th (of 296)
• Density	520/sq mi (200/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 92.4% White 3.2% Asian 2.2% Mixed 1.5% Black 0.7% other
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 47.3% Christianity 43.8% no religion 7.5% other 1.4% Islam
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code	12UE (ONS) E07000011 (GSS)
OS grid reference	TL1900381334
Website	huntingdonshire.gov.uk

Huntingdonshire (/ˈhʌntɪŋdənʃər, -ʃɪər/; abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England, which was historically a county in its own right. It borders Peterborough to the north, Fenland to the north-east, East Cambridgeshire to the east, South Cambridgeshire to the south-east, Central Bedfordshire and Bedford to the south-west, and North Northamptonshire to the west.

The district had a population of 180,800 at the 2021 census, and has an area of 354.3 square miles (918 km²).^[2] After St Neots (33,410), the largest towns are Huntingdon (25,428), St Ives (16,815), and Yaxley (9,174 in 2011). The district council is based in Huntingdon.

Huntingdonshire's boundaries were established in the Anglo-Saxon era. It was divided into four hundreds. The county did not have an independent sheriff, instead being combined with neighbouring Cambridgeshire. Huntingdonshire became an administrative county when they were established 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.