Place:Huntingdon and Peterborough, England
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Huntingdon and Peterborough was a short-lived administrative county in East Anglia. It was formed in 1965, following the Local Government Commission for England (1958–1967), by the merger of the administrations of the Soke of Peterborough and Huntingdonshire, both very small counties, in an attempt to make a more viable administrative unit. To these were attached the Thorney Rural District from the Isle of Ely. As a consequence, the Soke of Peterborough was removed from the jurisdiction of the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire and absorbed by the Custos Rotulorum and Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire, who became Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough. The attempt was deemed a failure, so under the Local Government Act 1972 — which replaced the administrative counties and county boroughs of the Local Government Act 1888 with metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties — Huntingdon and Peterborough merged with neighbouring Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely (itself formed in 1965, following the traditional division of the county into the area around Cambridge and the liberty of the Isle of Ely), to form the new enlarged non-metropolitan county (and lieutenancy) of Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire Constabulary was also formed with its present boundaries at this time, under the Police Act 1964, from the merger of the Cambridge City Police, the previous Cambridgeshire County Constabulary, Isle of Ely Constabulary, Huntingdonshire Constabulary, and the Peterborough Combined Police Force (created in 1947 from the Liberty of Peterborough Police and the City of Peterborough Police). The new force was named the Mid-Anglia Constabulary until 1974, when non-metropolitan Cambridgeshire was created with identical boundaries.
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