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Cambridgeshire. 52°20′04″N 0°04′34″W / 52.334362°N 0.076147°W / 52.334362; -0.076147. St Ives is a medieval market town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district in Cambridgeshire, England, [3] 5 miles (8 km) east of Huntingdon and 12 miles (19 km) north-west of Cambridge. St Ives is historically in the county of ...
St Ives began life as the village of Slepe, built on the banks of the Great Ouse in about AD 500. Its rise to fame and fortune began with the discovery of the bones of ‘St Ivo’. According to legend it was on 24th April 1001 that a ploughman from Slepe dug up a stone coffin containing a skeleton. It was claimed the bones were those of Saint ...
Oct 21, 2024 · In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, St Ives became a part of the county of Cambridgeshire. At Westminster St Ives is in the parliamentary constituency of Huntingdon , [12] and since 2024 has been represented in the House of Commons by Ben Obese-Jecty ( Conservative ).
Huntingdon, the place of his birth in 1599, turned down the chance to erect a memorial in the late 19th century. Even in St Ives there were reservations over the bronze statue raised by public subscription and erected in Market Hill in 1901. Great fire of St Ives. In 1689 St Ives suffered a devastating fire.
It was originally a village called Slepe. St. Ives was granted an eight-day fair by Henry I in 1110 and developed in consequence until the fair was suspended during the Black Death epidemic in 1349. A six-arched bridge (c. 1415), with a chapel over the central pier, spans the Ouse. Pop. (2001) 16,001; (2011) 16,384.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, St Ives became a part of the county of Cambridgeshire. At Westminster St Ives is in the parliamentary constituency of Huntingdon, and since 2001 has been represented in the House of Commons by Jonathan Djanogly ( Conservative ).
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St. Ives. The town of St. Ives began life as "Slepe", which means "muddy" in Anglo-Saxon! That says all that needs to be said about the town's location on the edge of the Great Fen. The name was changed to St Ives after the body of St Ivo was found near here in AD 1001. A local farmer ploughing his fields unearthed a stone coffin, which was ...
