Eynesbury Hardwicke is a former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

, now in the parishes of

Abbotsley Abbotsley is a village and civil parish within the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England.St Neots St NeotsPronunciation of the town name: Most commonly, but variations that ''saint'' is said as in most English non-georeferencing speech, the ''t'' is by a small minority of the British pronounced and higher traces of in the final syllable ...

, in the

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. The district council is based in Huntingdon. Other towns include St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots and Ramsey. The popul ...

part of

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...

, England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,124. Eynesbury Hardwicke was historically part of Eynesbury parish. That parish was split in two on 1 April 1895; the village of Eynesbury was incorporated into the town of

St Neots St NeotsPronunciation of the town name: Most commonly, but variations that ''saint'' is said as in most English non-georeferencing speech, the ''t'' is by a small minority of the British pronounced and higher traces of in the final syllable ...

. Eynesbury Hardwicke parish was formed from the remaining 2,641 acres (10.7 km²) of countryside. Caldecote Manor, Eynesbury Hardwicke House and the site of an abandoned village, Weald, are in the former parish. It did not contain a parish church or settlement—though by the time of its dissolution Eynesbury had expanded into the parish—but it did have a parish council. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2010 and the area divided between Abbotsley and St Neots.

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Huntingdonshire Former civil parishes in Cambridgeshire St Neots {{Cambridgeshire-geo-stub