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Saint Neots

St Neots
St. Neots Sign.jpg
St Neots sign
St Neots is located in Cambridgeshire
St Neots
St Neots
St Neots shown within Cambridgeshire
Population 31,165 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference TL185605
• London 49 miles (79 km) S
Civil parish
  • St Neots
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town ST. NEOTS
Postcode district PE19
Dialling code 01480
Police Cambridgeshire
Fire Cambridgeshire
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cambridgeshire
52°14′N 0°16′W / 52.23°N 0.26°W / 52.23; -0.26Coordinates: 52°14′N 0°16′W / 52.23°N 0.26°W / 52.23; -0.26
St Neots Foot and Cycle Bridge
St Neots Southern Foot and Cycle route.png
The route and location of the St Neots (Southern) Foot and Cycle Bridge.
Location Cambridgeshire
Geometry KML

St Neots /snt ˈnəts/ is a town and civil parish in the non metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire, England, within the historic county of Huntingdonshire, next to the Bedfordshire county border. It lies on the River Great Ouse in the Huntingdonshire District, 15 miles (24 km) west of Cambridge and 49 miles (79 km) north of central London. St Neots is the largest town in Cambridgeshire with a population of approximately 40,000 in 2014. The town is named after the Cornish monk Saint Neot whose bones were subject to translation from the hamlet of St Neot on Bodmin Moor on consecration of the Priory of St Neots c. 980.

Pilgrimage to St Neots brought prosperity for the town, and it was granted a market charter in 1130. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the town enjoyed further prosperity through corn milling, brewing, stagecoach traffic and railways. After the Second World War, the town and its industry grew rapidly as London councils paid for new housing to be built in the town to rehouse families from London. The first London overspill housing was completed in the early 1960s.


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