Old Hurst is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England,[1] approximately 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Huntingdon.

It is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.The small Parish Church of St Peter's dates from the 13th century and is a Grade II* listed building.

This glacial relic served many functions throughout the centuries, having been sculpted into a curious chair-shaped mass: folklore has it that it in the Middle Ages it formed the base of a plinth that held an almighty stone cross upright.

This antiquity now rests against a wall just outside the Norris Museum in St Ives and, according to the writer Daniel Codd, there is a belief that it is haunted.

There is also a belief that if the stone should ever sink beneath the earth then the streets of Bluntisham would run red with blood.

A parish council is responsible for providing and maintaining a variety of local services including allotments and a cemetery; grass cutting and tree planting within public open spaces such as a village green or playing fields.

For Old Hurst the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council which has administration buildings in Cambridge.