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Hamerton is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. Hamerton lies approximately north-west of Huntingdon. Hamerton is in the civil parish of Hamerton and Steeple Gidding. Hamerton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. Hamerton Zoo is on the north side of the village. The village has a church dedicated to All Saints. At the 2011 census the population of the village was included in the civil parish of Winwick.
The civil parish of Hamerton and Steeple Gidding incorporates the nearby hamlet of Steeple Gidding, which has a 14th-century church St Andrew's that is now redundant and preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust. Along with its nearby neighbour Great Gidding, Steeple Gidding forms part of a cluster of villages known as The Giddings.
Hamerton is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:
- Greg Hamerton (born 1973) is a South African fantasy novelist and extreme sports writer
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834–1894), English artist, art critic and writer
- Robert Hamerton-Kelly (1938–2013), South African Christian theologian, United Methodist pastor and author