Huntingdon
Huntingdon, the birth place of Oliver Cromwell, was separated from the borough of Godmanchester by the River Ouse.Pigot’s Commercial Dir. (1823-4), 369-70. It lacked the ‘stir and bustle’ usually associated with a county town, but continued to flourish in this period. William Cobbett† described it as ‘one of those pretty, clean, unstenched, unconfined places that tend to lengthen life and make it happy’. Cobbett’s Rural Rides ed. G.D.H. and M. Cole, i.