Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English Huntandun (973) "Hill of the Huntsman" (or of a man called Hunta).
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2817
Land area (2000): 3.448306 sq. miles (8.931070 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.086339 sq. miles (0.223618 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.534645 sq. miles (9.154688 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36368
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.495187 N, 78.013147 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 16652
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Huntingdon
Housing Units (2000): 1950
Land area (2000): 11.215069 sq. miles (29.046893 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.047891 sq. miles (0.124036 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.262960 sq. miles (29.170929 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36580
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 36.007154 N, 88.420683 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38344
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Huntingdon
Housing Units (2000): 21058
Land area (2000): 874.054752 sq. miles (2263.791320 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 14.977769 sq. miles (38.792242 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 889.032521 sq. miles (2302.583562 sq. km)
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.392177 N, 77.991353 W
Headwords:
Huntingdon, PA
Huntingdon County
Huntingdon County, PA
Wikipedia
Huntingdon is a market town in Cambridgeshire, England. The town was chartered by King John in 1205. It is the traditional county town of Huntingdonshire, and is the seat of the Huntingdonshire district council. It is known as the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell, who was born in 1599 and was the member of parliament (MP) for the town in the 17th century. The former Conservative prime minister John Major was the MP for the town from 1979 to 2001.
Huntingdon may refer to:
Huntingdon was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1917.
It was created by the British North America Act, 1867. It was amalgamated into the Châteauguay—Huntingdon electoral district in 1914.
Huntingdon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Jonathan Djanogly, a Conservative.
Huntingdon is a provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes the cities or municipalities such as Huntingdon, Saint-Anicet, Hemmingford, Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Napierville and Ormstown.
It was originally created for the 1867 election. Its final election was in 1989 and its successor electoral district was Beauharnois-Huntingdon.
It was re-created for the 2003 election from parts of Beauharnois-Huntingdon and Saint-Jean electoral districts.
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Rémi to the newly created Sanguinet electoral district.
Huntingdon, also known as The Meadow, is a historic plantation house located near Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1830, and is a two-story, five bay, stone I-house dwelling with a gable roof. A rear ell was added around 1850, making a "T"-shaped house. Also on the property are a contributing pyramidal roofed mid-19th-century smokehouse and a stone-lined ice pit with a late 19th-century, square-notched log icehouse.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Huntingdon is a historic plantation house located at Roanoke, Virginia. It was built about 1819, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a central-passage-plan and an integral two-story rear ell. The front and side elevations feature mid-19th century Greek Revival style porches. The house was restored and improved in 1988-1989. Also on the property is a contributing family cemetery and an outbuilding believed to have been a slave house.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Usage examples of "huntingdon".
David Hurst, a cyclist who had stopped to rest in the lay-by on the northbound section of the road near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, raised the alarm, triggering a murder probe which remains unsolved to this day.
They learned from the Fenmen that numerous fugitives had taken refuge in the southern swamps, and that these sallying out had fallen upon parties of Romans near Huntingdon, and had cut them to pieces.
They drove at first a good many cattle in with them, but most of these were lost in the morasses, and as there have been bodies of horse moving about near Huntingdon, they have not been able to venture out as we have done to drive in more.
Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of the Baron of Arlingford, with the noble Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Locksley and Huntingdon.
The lad, for he was not yet sixteen, was the son of Parta, the chieftainess of one of the divisions of the great tribe of the Iceni, who occupied the tract of country now known as Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, and Huntingdon.
The Normans, misliking the gormandise of Canutus, ordained after their arrival that no table should be covered above once in the day, which Huntingdon imputeth to their avarice.
And then the prior of the Augustinian canons at Huntingdon saw it, and ordered a special binding for their great codex, and the sub-prior of Cluny at Northampton wanted his best missal rebound, and so it grew.
I remembered all too well the time when all the little monsters had popped up in the middle of the Huntingdons stock tank.
The townspeople of Huntingdon, having streamed to the racecourse in highly satisfactory numbers, were being divided, positioned, and enerallv ollied along by Ed, who had been given, 9 and had passed on, my emphatic instruction that the people who had come should be happy, and should want to return the next day, and the next.
I will not dwell upon the matter overlong, but will tell as speedily as may be of how that stout fellow, Robin Hood, died as he had lived, not at court as Earl of Huntingdon, but with bow in hand, his heart in the greenwood, and he himself a right yeoman.