Eynesbury Hardwicke

Eynesbury was an ancient parish. In 1876 the western part of the parish, including the village of Eynesbury itself, was incorporated into the local government district of St Neots. Under the Local Government Act 1894, such districts were reconstituted as urban districts, and civil parishes were no longer allowed to straddle district boundaries. The civil parish of Eynesbury was therefore reduced to just cover the part of the old parish within the urban district, and the remaining rural part of the old Eynesbury parish outside the urban district became a new civil parish called Eynesbury Hardwicke with effect from 1 April 1895. The Eynesbury Hardwicke parish had an area of and was primarily countryside. and the site of a deserted medieval village called Weald. By the early 2000s, the urban area of St Neots had started to extend into Eynesbury Hardwicke. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2010 and its area was divided between the neighbouring parishes of Abbotsley and St Neots. At the 2001 census (the last before the abolition of the civil parish), Eynesbury Hardwicke had a population of 1,124. ==References==