Needingworth, Huntingdonshire
Historical Description
Needingworth, a village in Holywell parish, Huntingdonshire, 2 miles ENE of St Ives. It is neatly built, and has a post office under St Ives; money order and telegraph office, St Ives. There are a large Baptist chapel, built in 1861, and a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1888. Sir Ambrose Nicholas, lord mayor of London in 1576, was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Huntingdonshire | |
| Civil parish | Holywell | |
| Hundred | Hurstingstone | |
| Poor Law union | St. Ives |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Needingworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Needingworth)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Huntindonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Needingworth are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)