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HUNTINGDONSHIRE. 



HURRAR. 



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Nene, 20 miles N.W. hy N. from Huntingdon : popnlation, 878. The 

 church has a fine tower, in the perpendicular style. The nave and 

 chancel are of the decorated style. The Wesleyan Methodists have a 

 chapel, and there are WooUey's Endowed school for boys, a school for 

 girls, and an hospital for aged widows. Eyrushnvy, 9 miles S. by W. 

 from Huntingdon, population 1233, is an ancient village close to the 

 town of St. Neots. The church consists of a nave, chancel, and aisles, 

 with clerestory, and a tower on the south side of the chancel. The 

 Free school for boys and girls was founded by the Rev. William Palmer, 

 rector of the parish. Fenstanton, 5 miles E.S.E. from Huntingdon, 

 population 1070; the church consists of chancel, nave with clerestory, 

 and aisles; a tower with a broach spire is at the west end. There is 

 a magnificent east window of seven lights, 1 7 feet wide. There are 

 two chapels for Baptists; National and British schools, an Infant 

 school, and a Free school. Grtat Gidding, 12 miles N.W. from Hunt- 

 ingdon : popnlation, 663. The church is chiefly early English. There 

 are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists, and a public 

 school, chiefly supported by Earl Fitzwilliam. Godmanckester, popu- 

 lation of the municipal borough 2337, a suburb of Huntingdon, 

 forms a part of the parliamentary borough of Huntingdon. The 

 church has a tower and spire of good outline, built in 1625 ; some 

 parts of the church are late perpendicolar. The Baptists and Inde- 

 pendents have places of worship. There are a Orammar school for boys, 

 founded in 1561, which had 36 scholars in 1852, a school of Industry 

 for girls, and an Infant schooL Qodmanchester was for many centuries 

 famed for the goodness of its husbandry. It appears to be the site of 

 the Roman Dumliponte, or Durolipons. Holgwdl, on the left bank 

 of the river Ouae, which here divides the county from Cambridgeshire, 

 7 miles E. by S. from Huntingdon, population 915 ; is named from a 

 well at the foot of the hill on wtuch the church stands, to which 

 numerous devotees in former times resorted. The church is chiefly 

 early English ; the tower, at the west end, is decorated, the west side 

 has a fine perpendicular doorway. Savtry, 94 miles N.N.W. from 

 Huntingdon, is in the parishes of Sawtry All Saints, and Sawtry St. 

 Andrew, and the extra-parochial district of Sawtry St. Judith, their 

 populations being respectively 693, 420, and 280. All Saints church 

 is chiefly in the early English style, with a low spire at the west end, 

 but baa tmdei^ne many alterations. In the church is a good sepul- 

 ohral brass of a knight and lady, of the date of \iOi. St. Andrew's 

 church consists of a chancel, a nave with south porch, and a tower ; 

 some portions are early English. There are here a chapel for Wes- 

 leyan Methodists, and National schools for boys and girls. Somtnham, 

 9 miles E.N.E. from Huntingdon : population, 1653. The church 

 consists of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, and a tower at the 

 west end. The chancel is early English, the tower is of the early 

 decorated style. The streets are paved, the cost being defrayed from 

 an endowment left for that purpose. The Baptists and Wesleyan 

 Methodists have places of worship, and there is an endowed National 

 school Fairs are held in June and November. Slcmdgnund is on 

 the Nene, 19 miles N. by W. from Huntingdon, and one mile and a 

 quarter from Peterborough : population, 1762. The church, which 

 has a tower and lofty spire, is a fine building in the decorated style ; 

 the south doorway is early English. There are a Wesleyan Metho- 

 dist chapel, and a National school. Stilton, formerly a market-town, 

 is on the high north road, 13 miles N.N.W. from Huntingdon ; popu- 

 lation, 803. The Stilton cheese takes its name from this village, but 

 Tery little of it is now made here or in the neighbourhood. The 

 church is chiefly of the perpendicular style. There are a Wesleyan 

 Methodist chapel and a National school. Warhcyt, 7 miles N.E. from 

 Huntingdon : population, 1996. The church is a spacious edifice, of 

 Tarious dates. The tower is a very fine early English one ; and in 

 the church is a handsome font of the same period. There are 

 National, British, and Infant schools. Yaaiey, once a market-town, 

 is on the right of the high north rood, 164 mUee N.N.W. fron Hunt- 

 ingdon : population, 1445. The village is small, and irregultu-Iy laid 

 out, but the houses are neatly built, and the situation, on a fine gra- 

 velly eminence, is good. The church is a spacious cruciform edifice, 

 of the perpendicular and decorated style ; it has a tower and fine 

 crocketed spiro with pinnacles and flying buttresses. The Wesleyan 

 and Primitive Methodists and Unitarians have phices of worship ; and 

 there is an Endowed school. Yaxley is called Takesle in Domesday 

 Book. 



Divitiont for Eccletieutical and Legal Purposes. — Himtingdonshiro 

 is in the diocese of Ely, and it constitutes an archdeaconry. The 

 county is included in the Norfolk circuit; the assizes and cpiarter- 

 ■essions are held at Huntingdon, where is the coimty jail. Hunting- 

 donshire and Cambridgeshire form but one shrievalty. By the Poor- 

 Law Commissioners Huntingdonshire is divided into three Unions — 

 Huntingdon, St. Ives, and St. Neots. These Unions contain 87 

 parishes, with an area of 202,362 acres, and a population in 1851 of 

 60,085. County courts are held at Huntingdon and St. Neots. The 

 county returns two members to Parliament, and two members are 

 returned for the borough of Huntingdon. 



History and Antiquities. — Two Roman stations are considered to 

 have been in this county — Durolipons, or Duroliponte, near Qodman- 

 chester ; and Durobriva), at Water Newton, on the Huntingdonshire 

 side of the river Nene. Stone-coffins, coins, fragments of Roman 

 pottery, a small um, and other Roman remains, have been dug up 



at various places iu the county. Of ancient roads, the Roman Ermine- 

 street crossed the county, from south-by-east to north-by-west, through 

 Durolipons and Durobrivje, and nearly iu the line of the present north 

 road through Boyston. The Via Devana crossed the county, passing 

 from near Cambridge by Durolipons to Ratte, or Leicester. 



In the earlier part of the Saxon period this county was included in 

 the kingdom of the Eastern Angles, and is said to have been even then 

 called Huntcdunesoyre, or Huntandunesoyre : it was subsequently 

 annexed to Mercia, and shared the fate of that kingdom. Waltheof, 

 son of Siward, an Anglo-Saxon noble who held the earldom or county 

 and most of the land iu it, having manied Judith, William the Con- 

 queror's niece, was made by that monarch Earl of Huntingdon. He 

 was aftenvards beheaded by the Conqueror's order. The earldom of 

 Huntingdon was successively conferred on Simon de St. Liz, and 

 David, prince (afterwards king) of Scotland, who married Maud, or 

 Matilda, daughter of Waltheof. The earldom is now iu the possession 

 of a branch of the Hastings family. 



There were anciently two abbeys in the county ; one at Ramsey, 

 and one of the Cistercian order at Sawtry St. Judith. There are no 

 remains of the buildings. At Stoneleigh was a small priory of 

 Augustine canons, and a Benedictine nunnery on the site of Hinchiu- 

 brook House. 



Of the churches, Woodstoue had in the tower, before its recent 

 re-erection, some portions of Anglo-Saxon architecture. Alwalton, 

 Bury, Conington, Fletton, Hartford, and Ramsey have some portions 

 of Norman architecture. The tower of Chesterton church is a good 

 specimen of early English, with a fine spire. Upton, Leighton, 

 Bromswold, and Wootton churches have also some fine portions of 

 early English architecture. Elton church is partly of the decorated 

 style ; and St. Neots is a fine example of the perpendiculai-. 



In the civil wars of Charles I. Huntingdon was plundered in 1645 

 by the Royalists under the king's own command. In 1646 the Earl 

 of Holland and the Duke of Buckingham with 100 horse were beset 

 in St. Neots. The Duke of Buckingham forced his way through the 

 Parliamentary soldiers, but the Earl of Holland surrendered without 

 resistance. 



Statistics. — According to the Returns of the Census, taken in 1851, 

 it appears that there were then in the county 196 places of worship, 

 of which 96 belonged to the Established Church, 46 to Methodists, 

 30 to Baptists, and 7 to Independents. The total number of sittings 

 provided was 46,023. The number of Sunday schools was 130, of 

 which 77 belonged to the Church of England, 25 to Methodists, 19 to 

 Baptists, and 3 to Independents. The number of Sunday scholars 

 was 9444. The total number of Day schools in the county in 1851 

 was 230, of which 95 were public schools with 6631 scholars, and 135 

 were private schools with 2552 scholars. There were 4 evening 

 schools for adults in tho county, with 60 pupils. Of literary and 

 scientific institutions there were 8 in the county with 242 members, 

 and with 1936 volumes in the libi-aries belonging to them. In 1852 

 there was 1 savings bank in the county at Huntingdon. The amount 

 owing to depositors on November 20th 1852 was 64,067/. 17». \d. 



HUNTLY, Aberdeensliire, Scotland, a bui^h of barony and market- 

 town in the parish of Huntly, is situated in 57° 27' N. lat., 2° 48' 

 W. long., near the junction of the rivers Bogie and Doveran, and on 

 the roa<l between Aberdeen and Elgin, distant about 40 miles N.W. 

 from Aberdeen. The population of the town in 1851 was 3131. 



The town is clean, and lighted with gas, and the streets are gene- 

 rally well built. The principal streets cross each other at right angles, 

 and form at the point of intersection a market-place. An ancient 

 bridge crosses the Doveran, and a modem one the Bogie. Besides the 

 parish church there are cbapeU for Free Church and United Presby- 

 terians, Episcopalians, Independents, and Roman Catholics. In the 

 neighbourhood are the ruins of Huntly Castle, destroyed in 1594 ; 

 near which is the modem mansion, Huntly Lodge, the seat of tho 

 Duke of Richmond. 



HUNTSVILLE. [Alabama] 



HURDWAR. [HiNDDSTA.v.] 



HURIEL. [Ai-LiEii.] 



HURLEY. [BEBicsniRE.] 



HURON, LAKE ANl) DISTRICT. [Cajtada.] 



HURRAH, called also HARRAB and AUHARI, is a country with 

 a large commercial town of the same name, in the eastern part of 

 Africa, and situated between Ankober, the capital of Shoa, and the 

 harbour of Burburah. 



Accordmg to the accounts of the natives of the adjacent countries, 

 the town is so large that it takes two hours to go round it at a quick 

 pace. It is surrounded by a wall of stone and mud, which is about 

 12 feet high and 3 feet thick, and kept in good repair. There are 

 5 gates. The houses are generally built of stone and whitewa.shed, 

 with flat roofs. There are however some few huts resembling those 

 in Shoa. The emir and the principal inhabitants have houses of two 

 stories. There are said to be many mosques within the town, which 

 is well supplied with water from numerous springs in its vicinity. 

 Close to the town is a river called Sambi. 



The inhabitants are rigid Mohammedans, and, according to 

 D'Abbadie, there is a law in force which prohibits any white man 

 from entering the town. The principal occupation of the people is 

 that of tilling the soil, which for several miles around is highly 



