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St Neots is the largest town in the south of Huntingdonshire. It lies on the banks of the River Great Ouse, where the Great Ouse enters Huntingdonshire. The main town was formerly Eynesbury, a name kept by the southern part of the town, but in the Anglo-Saxon period a priory was founded to the north of Eynesbury, where the bridge crosses the Great Ouse. The priory was named after the Cornish monk St Neot whose bones were stolen from the village of St Neot on Bodmin Moor and concealed in the priory, and the town which grew around the priory took the same name. Eynesbury, which has kept its separate identity, now forms part of the urban area of St Neots. The town is within the council area of Huntingdonshire (Cambridgeshire).

Place Type: Town
Historic County: Huntingdonshire
Lat, Long: 52.22788,-0.269376
Grid Reference: TL 1829 6026
Civil Parish: St Neots CP
Council Area: Huntingdonshire CA (Cambridgeshire CA)
Strategic Authority Area: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough SA
Police Area: Cambridgeshire PA

GBPN ID: 41886
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/St_Neots,_Huntingdonshire_41886

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