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Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver Cromwell was born there in 1599 and became one of its Members of Parliament (MP) in 1628. The former Conservative Prime Minister (1990–1997) John Major served as its MP from 1979 until his retirement in 2001.
| Climate data for Monks Wood (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 7.6(45.7) | 8.4(47.1) | 11.1(52.0) | 14.1(57.4) | 17.2(63.0) | 20.0(68.0) | 22.6(72.7) | 22.5(72.5) | 19.5(67.1) | 15.2(59.4) | 10.7(51.3) | 7.8(46.0) | 14.8(58.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 1.4(34.5) | 1.4(34.5) | 2.6(36.7) | 4.2(39.6) | 6.8(44.2) | 9.9(49.8) | 11.9(53.4) | 12.0(53.6) | 10.0(50.0) | 7.4(45.3) | 4.2(39.6) | 1.8(35.2) | 6.2(43.2) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 48.7(1.92) | 37.4(1.47) | 37.8(1.49) | 42.7(1.68) | 45.5(1.79) | 52.3(2.06) | 55.9(2.20) | 56.0(2.20) | 52.6(2.07) | 63.2(2.49) | 57.0(2.24) | 53.3(2.10) | 602.3(23.71) |
| Average rainy days (≥ 1 mm) | 10.5 | 9.2 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.2 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.1 | 10.5 | 111.1 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 57.4 | 80.6 | 118.8 | 159.3 | 191.8 | 184.5 | 195.0 | 184.0 | 147.3 | 111.9 | 66.9 | 57.7 | 1,555.2 |
| Source: Met Office | |||||||||||||
| Parish | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
| Huntingdon | 4,464 | 4,644 | 4,570 | 5,282 | 14,648 | 15,451 | 20,099 | 23,732 | ||
| All population census figures are taken from the report Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011 by Cambridgeshire Insight. For the censuses of 1961 and 1971, Huntingdon was combined with Godmanchester. | ||||||||||