Huntingdon and Peterborough
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| Status: | Administrative county |
| HQ: | Peterborough |
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| History | |
| Created: | 1965 |
| Abolished: | 1974 |
| Succeeded by: | Cambridgeshire |
| Population | |
| 1971: | 202,622 |
Huntingdon and Peterborough was a short-lived administrative county in England.
It was formed in 1965 by the merger of the administrations of the Soke of Peterborough and Huntingdonshire, both very small counties, in an attempt to make a more viable administrative unit. To these were attached the Thorney Rural District from the Isle of Ely.
The Soke of Peterborough was removed from the jurisdiction of the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire at this time and absorbed into the area of the Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire who became Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough.
This attempt was deemed a failure so the area became part of the non-metropolitan county (and lieutenancy) of Cambridgeshire in 1974.
