Huntingdon

Huntingdon is a sleepy historic town in , , on the banks of the River Ouse, best known as the birthplace of English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell.
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  • Type: Town with 25,400 residents
  • Description: market town and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Huntandun”, “Huntandún”, and “Ханцінгдан”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Huntingdon railway station and Huntingdon Castle.

Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the market town of Huntingdon in , England.

Archaeological site
Photo: Duncan Grey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was situated in the town of Huntingdon in .

Museum
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The in Huntingdon, England…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Godmanchester and Hartford.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in the district of , England.

Village
Photo: John Webber, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the suburb of Huntingdon and…

Village
is a village and former civil parish… is situated 2 miles northwest of Huntingdon.

Huntingdon

Latitude
52.3305° or 52° 19′ 50″ north
Longitude
-0.1844° or 0° 11′ 4″ west
Population
25,400
Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)
IATA airport code
XHU
UN/LOCODE
GB HUD
Open location code
9C4X8RJ8+67
Open­Street­Map ID
node 24978380
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2646393
Wiki­data ID
Q685640
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Huntingdon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هانتينغدون”
  • Armenian: “Հանթինգդոն”
  • Basque: “Huntingdon”
  • Belarusian: “Хантынгдан”
  • Bulgarian: “Хънтингдън”
  • Catalan: “Huntingdon”
  • Cebuano: “Huntingdon”
  • Chinese: “亨廷登”
  • Chinese: “亨廷頓”
  • Czech: “Huntingdon”
  • Danish: “Huntingdon”
  • Dutch: “Huntingdon”
  • Esperanto: “Huntingdon”
  • Finnish: “Huntingdon”
  • French: “Huntingdon”
  • Galician: “Huntingdon, Inglaterra”
  • German: “Huntingdon”
  • Greek: “Χάντινγκτον”
  • Hebrew: “הנטינגדון”
  • Irish: “Huntingdon”
  • Italian: “Huntingdon”
  • Japanese: “ハンティンドン”
  • Kirghiz: “Хантингдон”
  • Korean: “헌팅던”
  • Ladin: “Huntingdon”
  • Latin: “Huntingtonia”
  • Latvian: “Hantingdona”
  • Lithuanian: “Hantingdonas”
  • Maori: “Huntingdon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Huntingdon (Cambridgeshire)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Huntingdon”
  • Moksha: “Гантингдон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Huntingdon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Huntingdon”
  • Norwegian: “Huntingdon”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Huntandūn”
  • Persian: “هانتینگدون”
  • Polish: “Huntingdon”
  • Portuguese: “Huntingdon”
  • Romanian: “Huntingdon”
  • Russian: “The Huntingdon”
  • Russian: “Хантингдон”
  • Scots: “Huntingdon”
  • Slovak: “Huntingdon”
  • Slovenian: “Huntingdon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هانتینقدون”
  • Spanish: “Huntingdon”
  • Swedish: “Huntingdon”
  • Tagalog: “Huntingdon”
  • Thai: “ฮันทิงดอน”
  • Turkish: “Huntingdon”
  • Ukrainian: “Гантінгдон”
  • Urdu: “ہنٹنگڈن”
  • Volapük: “Huntingdon”
  • Welsh: “Huntingdon”
  • Western Frisian: “Huntingdon”
  • “Huntingdon”

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