Huntingdon

Huntingdon
Market town
Huntingdon Town Hall and The Thinking Soldier War Memorial
Huntingdon Location within Cambridgeshire
Population	25,428 (2021 Census)[1]
OS grid reference	TL245725
District	Huntingdonshire
Shire county	Cambridgeshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Areas of the town	List Hartford Sapley Stukeley Meadows Town Centre
Post town	HUNTINGDON
Postcode district	PE28, PE29
Dialling code	01480
Police	Cambridgeshire
Fire	Cambridgeshire
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Huntingdon
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.