Huntingdon and Godmanchester

52.319°N 0.175°W / 52.319; -0.175

Huntingdon and Godmanchester
Area
• 1961	7,057 acres (28.56 km^2)
Population
• 1961	8,821
History
• Created	1961
• Abolished	1974
• Succeeded by	Huntingdon District
Status	Municipal borough
• HQ	Huntingdon

Huntingdon

Godmanchester

Huntingdon and Godmanchester was a municipal borough in Huntingdonshire (and then Huntingdon and Peterborough) from 1961 to 1974.^[1]

It was formed on 1 April 1961 by the merger of the boroughs of Huntingdon and Godmanchester. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 the borough was abolished, and a successor parish formed within Huntingdon District, in the non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire. The parish had the status of a town, by resolution of the parish council.

The borough was granted a coat of arms in 1963, which illustrated the union of the two towns. The shield was divided horizontally in a dovetail pattern to show the joining of two municipalities. At the top of the shield were two hunting horns for Huntingdon, and at the base a fleur-de-lis from the common seal of Godmanchester. The supporters on either side of the shield were described as a "medieval huntsman" and a "medieval oxherd", and they stood upon a representation of the old bridge at Huntingdon that linked the two towns. The motto was United We Advance.

On 1 April 1982 the union of the two towns ended, with the formation of two separate civil parishes of Huntingdon and Godmanchester,^[2] each governed by a town council. In 1961 the parish had a population of 8821.^[3]

References

1. Youngs, F. (1979), Local Administrative Units: Southern England, Royal Historical Society, archived from the original on 2007-09-30
2. "Huntingdon Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
3. "Population statistics Huntingdon and Godmanchester CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 21 January 2023.