Huntingdonshire (/ˈhʌntɪŋdənʃər, -ʃɪər/; abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England, which was historically a county in its own right.

[4] Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office in Huntingdon.

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (1992) considered in the 1990s the case for making a Huntingdonshire unitary authority as part of a general structural review of English local government that led to unitary authorities in two other English counties that had been abolished: Rutland and Herefordshire.

The commission recommended the creation of a Peterborough unitary authority, but proposed that Huntingdonshire remain part of the shire county of Cambridgeshire, noting that "there was no exceptional county allegiance to Huntingdonshire, as had been perceived in Rutland and Herefordshire.

"[6] David McKie writing in The Guardian in October 1994 noted that "Writers-in demanded an independent Huntingdon; but MORI's more broadly based poll showed that most Huntingdonians – that is, most of [Prime Minister] John Major's electors – were content to stay part of Cambridgeshire.

In 2002 it established an annual "Huntingdonshire Day" on 25 April, the birthday of Oliver Cromwell.

[10] Huntingdonshire District Council's headquarters are located in Pathfinder House in Huntingdon.

A club member, Charles Tebbutt, wrote the first official rules in 1882 and helped to spread the sport to other countries.

[14] In terms of television, Huntingdonshire is served by BBC East and ITV Anglia broadcasting from the Sandy Heath TV transmitter.

1no record of a church having ever existed 2now in Bedfordshire 3now in Northamptonshire 4a chapelry to Broughton in Hurstingstone hundred In order of birth: