This list of parishes in the modern county of Cambridgeshire indicates whether they were historically part of Huntingdonshire or Cambridgeshire.
Click on the link below to see a map of Cambridgeshire parishes and the former county boundaries.
Cambridgeshire Archives, Shire Hall, Cambridge
holds records relating to the former counties of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, as well as all archived records of Cambridgeshire County Council from 1974 onwards as well as and records dating from before 1974 which cover both the old Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire areas.
Historical records relating to Thorney, previously in the former county of the Isle of Ely and now in the Peterborough City Council area, are still held in Cambridgeshire Archives.
Huntingdonshire Archives, Huntingdon Library and Archives, Huntingdon
holds records relating to the former county of Huntingdonshire, an area largely coinciding with today's Huntingdonshire District Council, and with the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon. This includes Alwalton, Stanground, the Ortons, and Fletton, which were historically part of Huntingdonshire but which today form part of Peterborough City Council.
Peterborough records:
- Original parish records, probate records, Quarter Sessions records and so on for the area south of the River Nene, previously in Huntingdonshire (Alwalton, Stanground, the Ortons, and Fletton), are held at Huntingdonshire Archives.
- Original parish records, probate records, Quarter Sessions records and so on for the Peterborough area north of the River Nene (the former Soke of Peterborough) are held at Northamptonshire Record Office
- Surviving records of most Peterborough schools (especially ones within the City itself), records of Peterborough Feoffees, the old city charities, and the Soke of Peterborough County Council are also held at Huntingdonshire Archives.
- Records of the County Council of Huntingdon and Peterborough are held at Cambridgeshire Archives.
- Records of Peterborough Development Corporation and some other bodies are held at Peterborough Archives Service