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Hurstingstone was a hundred of Huntingdonshire, England that was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Hurstingstone was one of four Hundreds of Huntingdonshire and covered the eastern region of the county. The other Hundreds were Norman Cross, Leightonstone and Toseland.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Hurstingstone Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "HURSTINGSTONE, a hundred in Huntingdon; named from an ancient stone near Old Hurst; and containing Old Hurst parish, twenty-two other parishes, and part of another. Acres: 72,670. Population in 1851: 20,946; in 1861: 19,961. Houses: 4,323."
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List of Parishes with chapelries and townships
| Ancient Parish | Parish Status | Subsidiary Places | Subsidiary Place Status | Notes
| | Abbots Ripton | ancient parish, civil parish | | |
| | Bluntisham cum Earith | ancient parish, civil parish | Earith | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Broughton | ancient parish, civil parish | Bythorn | chapelry, civil parish | Bythorn was in Leightonstone Hundred
| | Great Raveley | ancient parish, civil parish | | | became part of Upwood and the Raveleys in 1935
| | Great Stukeley | ancient parish, civil parish | | | became part of The Stukeleys in 1935
| | Hartford | ancient parish, civil parish | | | became part of the municipal borough of Huntingdon in 1935
| | Holywell cum Needingworth | ancient parish, civil parish | | |
| | Houghton | ancient parish, civil parish | | |
| | Huntingdon All Saints | ancient parish, civil parish | | | until 1921
| | Huntingdon St. Benedict | ancient parish, civil parish | | | until 1921
| | Huntingdon St. John | ancient parish, civil parish | | | until 1921
| | Huntingdon St. Mary | ancient parish, civil parish | | | until 1921
| | Kings Ripton | ancient parish, civil parish | | |
| | Little Stukeley | ancient parish, civil parish | | | became part of The Stukeleys in 1935
| | Old Hurst | chapelry, civil parish | | |
| | Ramsey | ancient parish, civil parish | | |
| | Somersham | ancient parish, civil parish | Colne | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Pidley cum Fenton | chapelry, civil parish |
| | St. Ives | ancient parish, civil parish | Old Hurst | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Woodhurst | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Warboys | ancient parish, civil parish | | |
| | Wistow | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish | Bury | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Little Raveley | chapelry, civil parish | became part of Upwood and the Raveleys in 1935
| | Upwood | chapelry, civil parish | became part of Upwood and the Raveleys in 1935
| | Wyton | ancient parish, civil parish | | |
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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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