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This page contains the Extra-Parochial places for Huntingdonshire

[Transcribed information from Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer of England - 1750]
(unless otherwise stated)

"HINCHINGBROOK, (Huntingdonshire) a m. from Huntingdon, had a nunnery built and endowed by William the Conqueror; and the Cromwell's family had a seat here, called Hinchingbrook-House, which now bel. to the Earl of Sandwich, who from hence takes his title of Visc. In this house is one of the most magnificent rooms that is to be seen in England."

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2011]

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