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From its foundation until 1965 Eynesbury Hardwicke was located in the County of Huntingdonshire. After mergers in 1965 and 1974 the county became part of Cambridgeshire. It was part of the St Neots Rural District until 1974 and is now in the Huntingdonshire administrative district of Cambridgeshire.
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Eynesbury Hardwicke was probably part of Eynesbury parish in 1086 (the year of the Domesday Book). Eynesbury was split in two in 1895; most of the village of Eynesbury was incorporated into the town of St Neots. Eynesbury Hardwicke parish was formed from 2,641 acres (10.7 km²) of land in two separate pieces, and 8 acres (32,000 m2) of water.
Caldecote Manor, Eynesbury Hardwicke House and the site of an abandoned village, Weald, are in the parish. It did not contain a parish church or village, but it did have a parish council until 2009. At the time of the 2001 UK census, the parish had a population of 1,124. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2010 and the area divided between Abbotsley and St Neots.
It is possible that sources will be filed either under Eynesbury or under St. Neots. GENUKI describes the parish solely as Eynesbury.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Eynesbury from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "EYNESBURY, a parish in St. Neots [registration] district, Huntingdon; adjacent to St. Neots. It includes the hamlet of Weald; and its post town is St. Neots. Acres: 1,249. Real property: £5,910. Population: 1,314. Houses: 276. The manor belongs to the Earl of Sandwich. The living is a rectory in the [diocese] of Ely. Value: £429. Patron: the Earl of Sandwich. The church is good; and there are a [Primitive] Methodist chapel and a national school."
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Research Tips
- Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS
- The Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society has transcribed the parish registers for all the ancient parishes of Huntingdonshire and these can be purchased from the Society as pdfs.
- A History of the County of Huntingdon in 3 volumes from British History Online (Victoria County Histories). This is by far the most complete history of the parishes of the county to be found online. The chapters are ordered by the divisions of the county called hundreds, but each chapter is linked to the volume's content page. Volume 2 (published 1932) covers Hurstingstone and Toseland hundreds (index of parishes); Leightonstone and Norman Cross Hundreds (index of parishes) are found in Volume 3 (published 1936). Volume 1 is a part-volume describing the religious houses of the county.
- GENUKI has a page on Huntingdonshire and pages for each of the ecclesiastical or ancient parishes in the county. These give references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area.
- The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date.
- A Vision of Britain through Time, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions.
- Map of Huntingdonshire divisions in 1888 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Map of Huntingdonshire divisions in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
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