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The original village of Holywell developed from Roman times onwards as a ring village on the banks of the River Great Ouse at a crossing place to the village of Over. Being slightly off the beaten track additional houses were built where the lane to the village joins with the main road between St Ives and Earith. Because of the additional trade resulting from this new location the number of houses in the new village quickly exceeded that of Holywell and the new daughter village of Needingworth was born.
Holywell Croft is a modern building (1910) standing on the site of some buildings connected with the old religious houses, on one parish map the one of the gardens is still called the Abbot’s Garden. The village of Holywell is of quite an old world character, and doubtless in the time of Hereward the Wake and prior to the opening of the railway, occupied an important place on the river Ouse, which was the high waterway from Lynn to the Midland Counties. The neighbourhood is full of antiquarian interest, and close at hand is Moynes Hall, which probably had some connection with Sir William le Moygne, who possessed Sawtry in 1404. There are still portions of what might have been a moat round the hall.
Holywell-cum-Needingworth is one of the parishes of the District of Huntingdonshire, whose administrative centre is Huntingdon, the other principle towns being St Ives home of the Chapel on the Bridge, St Neots the largest town in the County of Cambridgeshire and Ramsey site of the former Abbey.
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Further to my earlier post regarding our use of Google Maps and Google's decision to charge us, and every one else who uses them, I have now replaced the maps on our five town websites with those supplied by Open Street Map. As it turns out I think they are better quality maps too.
Once the code settles down and I am convinced I don't have hidden gremlins in it I will roll the new maps to the remaining Hunts Web village and parish websites.
Yes, this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; the 8th, 9th and 10th October, it is time again for the huge Michaelmas Fair in St Ives. Come along and have some fun.
It seems like Google wants us to pay to be able to use their maps but that is not going to happen, they are wealthy enough as it is. So over this autumn we will be replacing the Google Maps on the Huntingdonshire websites with a new map service.
We are currently in the process of adding these new maps to our large, sister site, the British Towns Network and they are working very well indeed.
In the meantime, we apologise for any inconvenience.
UPDATE Monday 8th - The prototypes of the new maps are now functional on the St Ives Town Website.
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Here are the next five events in the Huntingdonshire Event Diary, the local ones are coloured GOLD and clicking the title will open links to event detail on this website whilst following the "Out of Parish' events will open in a new window on their own website. Click 'Show Summary' for exactly what it says, without going anywhere!
If you are organising an event anywhere if Huntingdonshire then follow this link for information on how to add a new event and advertise your event on over 50 websites
An 'Out of Parish' event in St Ives
From 08:30 until 14:00 on Saturday 20/10/2018 at The Pavement
An 'Out of Parish' event in St Ives
From 19:30 until 21:45 on Friday 26/10/2018 at Corn Exchange
An 'Out of Parish' event in St Neots
From 08:00 until 13:00 on Saturday 27/10/2018 at St Neots Market Place
An 'Out of Parish' event in St Ives
From 08:30 until 14:00 on Saturday 03/11/2018 at The Pavement
An 'Out of Parish' event in St Neots
From 08:00 until 13:00 on Saturday 10/11/2018 at St Neots Market Place
This site is listed in the British Towns and Villages Encyclopaedia of Great Britain and we can be found in the entry for Holywell
