Huntingdon and Peterborough

Former counties
1 Cambridgeshire
2 Huntingdonshire
3 Isle of Ely
4 Soke of Peterborough

Huntingdon and Peterborough was a short-lived county in the East of England. It was created in 1965 by combining Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough with part of the Isle of Ely. In 1974 the county was abolished and absorbed in Cambridgeshire.

LGBT history

The singer Andy Bell was born in Peterborough in 1964.

There was a Peterborough CHE group in the 1970s.