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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Hinchinbrook from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "HINCHINBROOK, an extra-parochial tract in the district and county of Huntingdon; on Alconbury brook, ½ a mile W of Huntingdon. A small Benedictine nunnery was founded here by William the Conqueror; and given, at the dissolution, to the Cromwells. A noble mansion was built here by Sir Henry Cromwell, "the golden knight gave entertainment, in his time, to Queen Elizabeth, on her return from Cambridge; gave entertainment also, in the time of Sir Oliver Cromwell, uncle of the Protector, to James I., on his way from Scotland to the English throne; passed to the Montagues; belongs now to the Earl of Sandwich; and gives him the title of Viscount."
Hinchinbrook was absorbed into the parish of Huntingdon St. Mary before 1830 and into Huntingdon Municipal Borough in 1921. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)
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