Huntingdon is a town in the county of
Cambridgeshire in East Anglia,
England. The town was chartered in 1205, and celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2005. It was formerly the county town of Huntingdonshire, and is currently the seat of the Huntingdonshire district council, Huntingdon was founded by the Anglo-Saxons and Danes. It prospered successively as a bridging point of the River Great Ouse.