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

In 2008 there was a move to create a Hunts LGBT group.

In 2012, Michael Black and John Morgan from Huntingdon won a case against a bed and breakfast owner in Cookham, Berkshire, who refused to let them have a double room.

The singer Andy Bell was born in Peterborough in 1964.

There was a Peterborough CHE group in the 1970s.