A Town was 1st chartered by King John in 1212 (though it had been the market town & royal manor for some years) and around 2003 had a people of astir 5500 around 3500 homes. Before the establishment of a key Roman town here, & the Mansio (inn), there is archaelogical grounds to believe of Celtic & earlier habitation, and so a region has probably been day and night occupied for further than 2000 years. the payout was at a carrefour of Roman roads, with Ermine Street, a Via Devana (from Cambridge, between Colchester and Chester) and the military road from either Sandy, Bedfordshire, all passing through. A Roman award was sacked by Anglo-Saxons in the third century. Around direct contrast to Huntingdon, there have been brobdingnagian numbers of archaeologic finds in the centre of Godmanchester, the conservation metropolitan arethe by owning a prominent total of timber framed Tudor houses, the largest existence Tudor Domestic, dating to 1600 and restored 1995.

One of a town's right-known feature is its Chinese Bridge. There are many bridges on top a Smashing Ouse to Huntingdon, however for centuries, until 1975, a medieval bridge was the exclusively a single. These are nowadays single utilized for lightly traffic, & the parallel footbridge has been built for pedestrians. Construction of the A14 bypass means that heavy traffic currently flows across the more modern bridge.