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St Neots Rural District existed in Huntingdonshire, England, from 1894 until 1965 and in the administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough from 1965 until 1974. Since 1974 the area has been located in the administrative area named the Huntingdonshire District of Cambridgeshire, England.
The rural district covered the south or southwest corner of Huntingdonshire with Huntingdon Rural District to the north and bordered with the counties of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire on the east, south and west.
The rural district was of such a shape that it was found necessary to split the district into two maps. The northwest section of the district follows the southeast in the table that follows. They use slightly different scales.
List of Parishes
| Parish | Description | Duration | 
| | Abbotsley | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Buckden | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Catworth | civil parish | 1885 - 1965
| | Covington | ancient parish, civil parish | 1935 - 1974
| | Diddington | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Eynesbury | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1895
| | Eynesbury Hardwicke | civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Grafham | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Graveley | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Great Gransden | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Great Paxton | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Great Staughton | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Hail Weston | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Kimbolton | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Little Paxton | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Midloe | extra parochial area, civil parish | 1894 - 1935
| | Offord Cluny | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Offord Darcy | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Southoe | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935
| | Southoe and Midloe | civil parish | 1935 - 1965
| | St. Neots | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1895
| | St. Neots Rural (parish) | civil parish | 1895 - 1965
| | Stow Longa (formerly named Stow) | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Tetworth | hamlet, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Tilbrook | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Toseland | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Waresley | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
| | Yelling | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1965
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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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