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Huntingdon Town Council

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Local Government in Cambridgeshire & Huntingdon
Local Schools and Further Education in Huntingdon
Local Health and Social Services facilities in Huntingdon
Housing Associations
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Huntingdon Town Hall and Town Seal
The History of Huntingdon
Historic Buildings in Huntingdon
Sport, Recreation and Leisure in Huntingdon
Huntingdon Town Centre
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Huntingdon & Godmanchester Twinning Association
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Huntingdon Town
Council Contact Information


Huntingdon Town Council
Town Hall
Market Hill
HUNTINGDON
PE29 3PJ


Tel: 01480 411883
Fax: 01480 410388

Email: Huntingdon Town Council
Huntingdon Town Website

 

Welcome Message

Dear Reader
Having worked in Huntingdon for almost ten years for Huntingdon Town Council, it has been an enormous pleasure for me to become acquainted with the place and its people.

In the light of the town’s Gold Awards in the Anglia in Bloom competition in 2010, where Huntingdon was Overall Winner and Winner of the Large Town and Environmental Quality categories, there’s no doubt that it’s a beautiful place, with strong commitment from the Castle Hillcommunity to keep it that way. Just visit our lovely Town Park, Hinchingbrooke Country Park or the Riverside Park, as well as a number of small green oases such as the St John’s Closed Churchyard, Victoria Square Gardens or the Hartford Garden of Rest to see for yourself.

The town has a rich historic heritage, featuring renowned characters such as Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys. And as a rapidly developing market town in one of the areas of greatest economic growth in England, the face of Huntingdon has and continues to enjoy much renewal and modernisation. The result is a pleasing diversity of sensitively contrasting characters in a town where you can picnic at Castle Hills, where the remains of the motte and bailey castle allow you to imagine life around 1068; be reminded of the Crimean War in the 1850’s by a replica of the gun presented to Ely by Queen Victoria, on Brampton Road; research Huntingdon’s past by reference to original documents, preserved in our state of the art archive facilities, completed in 2009 at Huntingdon’s new Library in Princes Street; or enjoy the modern day shopping and leisure experience at any one of over one hundred cafés and shops in our lively High Street, to suggest just a few ways to spend your time here.

Big Society might be the buzz word of the moment, but its principles of partnership working between statutory and voluntary sectors have been alive, well and developing in Huntingdon for a very long time. An active Town Centre Partnership, promoting the town’s economy and encouraging the active participation of local businesses in local decision making and a Twinning Association, maintaining and developing links with towns in Germany, France & Hungary are good examples of this, as are Neighbourhood Management and Participatory Budgeting initiatives in the Oxmoor area of the town, once an area of high deprivation and now much improved thanks to financial investment and social change.

Finally, boasting a range of sports facilities locally providing opportunities for tennis, football, archery, indoor and outdoor bowling, cricket and gymnastics, we’re particularly proud to be the host training town for some of England’s top Olympic gymnasts, focussed on next year’s Games in London, where we wish them the very best of luck.

I commend Huntingdon’s Town Guide to you with great pride and I hope it encourages you to get to know and enjoy our town a little better.

Karen Cameron, Town Clerk
March 2011




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