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Welcome to the Huntingdon Borough Archive
2005 marked the eight hundredth anniversary of the granting by King John of Huntingdon's first Royal Charter.
In celebration of this event, Cambridgeshire Archives Service began a project to re-catalogue all of the historical records of the Borough from 1205 to 1835, and making information about the Borough available online. This website contains:
- a history of the Borough of Huntingdon from its beginnings until its abolition in 1974
- information and translations of all the town's Royal Charters
- high quality digital images of some of the charters, photographed by the FSB Scanning Bureau
- detailed catalogues of some of the original records held at Huntingdonshire Archives.
- a full catalogue of all the Borough's documents is scheduled for completion in 2010, and will be published on this site
Funding for the Project has come from Huntingdon Freemen's Charity, the Huntingdonshire Local History Society, and Cambridgeshire County Council.
For information on the progress of the Project, please follow the links on the left.
