Eynesbury Hardwicke
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Eynesbury Hardwicke was a civil parish in the Huntingdonshire
Huntingdonshire
Huntingdonshire is a local government district of Cambridgeshire, covering the area around Huntingdon. Traditionally it is a county in its own right...

 of Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
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, England
England
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Eynesbury Hardwicke was probably part of Eynesbury parish in 1086. Eynesbury was split in two in 1895; most of the village of Eynesbury
Eynesbury
Eynesbury is a settlement in Cambridgeshire, England. It forms part of present-day St Neots, but before 1876 was a separate village.For details of Eynesbury's history, which began in the Saxon era, see the article History of St Neots. Eynesbury takes its name from the Anglo-Saxon "Ernulf's Burgh"...

 was incorporated into the town of St Neots
St Neots
St Neots is a town and civil parish with a population of 26,356 people. It lies on the River Great Ouse in Huntingdonshire District, approximately north of central London, and is the largest town in Cambridgeshire . The town is named after the Cornish monk St...

. Eynesbury Hardwicke parish was formed by 2,641 acres (10.7 km²) of land in two separate pieces, and 8 acres (32,374.9 m²) of water.

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 village—though it incorporated a part of Eynesbury—but it did have a have a parish council until 2009. At the time of the 2001 census
United Kingdom Census 2001
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....

, the parish had a population of 1,124.

The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2010 and the area divided between Abbotsley
Abbotsley
Abbotsley is a village and civil parish within the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is three miles from St Neots and 14 miles from the county town of Cambridge...

 and St Neots
St Neots
St Neots is a town and civil parish with a population of 26,356 people. It lies on the River Great Ouse in Huntingdonshire District, approximately north of central London, and is the largest town in Cambridgeshire . The town is named after the Cornish monk St...

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