Place:Winwick, Huntingdonshire, England

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Name	Winwick
Alt names	Winwick	source: from redirect
	Winewiche	source: Domesday Book (1985) p 141
	Winewincle	source: Domesday Book (1985) p 141
Type	Ancient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates	52.417°N 0.383°W
Located in	Huntingdonshire, England ( - 1965)
Also located in	Huntingdon and Peterborough, England (1965 - 1974)
	Cambridgeshire, England (1974 - )
See also	Polebrook Hundred, Northamptonshire, England	hundred in which it was part located until 1895
	Guilsborough Hundred, Northamptonshire, England	hundred in which it was part located
	Leightonstone Hundred, Huntingdonshire, England	hundred in which it was part located
	Oundle Rural, Huntingdonshire, England	rural district in which it was located 1894-1935
	Huntingdon Rural, Huntingdonshire, England	rural district in which it was located 1935-1974
	Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England	district municipality of which it has been part since 1974

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

Winwick is a village and civil parish at a crossroads near Hamerton and west of Huntingdon. It was considered to be in Northamptonshire until 1895. After that date it was recognized to be in the County of Huntingdonshire

From 1894 until 1935 it was located in Oundle Rural District. In that year Oundle Rural District was abolished and Winwick was transferred to Huntingdon Rural District. After mergers in 1965 and 1974 the county became part of Cambridgeshire.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Winwick from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"WINWICK, a parish in the [registration] district of Oundle and counties of Huntingdon and Northampton; 4½ miles SE by E of Barnwell [railway] station, and 6½ SE by S of Oundle. Post town, Oundle. Acres: 1,710. Real property: £1,813. Population: 380. Houses: 82. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value: £90. Patron: the Duke of Buccleuch. The church was restored in 1865. Charities, £18."

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Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS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