Huntingdonshire Scout County 1908 – 1965 – Cambridge District Scout Archive

Cambridge District Scout Archive

This history of Huntingdonshire Scout County has only recently begun. The dates of the local associations and Districts are not yet unraveled. From Huntingdon Archives the annual reports give the following details.

1919

South Hunts (Part of Hunts County and including Huntingdon LA)
+

1930’s Divided into three sections each with a separate DC’s

North Hunts
South Hunts
East Hunts

Total numbers Annual reports attribute the fall off to the drop in available leaders.

1930 518
1931 624
1932 664
1933 634
1934 647
1935 541
1936 497
1937 424
1938 473

1940’s Divided into two sections each with a separate DC’s

North Hunts
South Hunts

comprising

Hunts LA
St Ives LA
St Neots LA
Ramsay LA
Norman Cross LA

Known Groups, dates and locations No reused numbers from this evidence but Eaton Socon was a late start in ’38 which may suggest either the group was restarted or the number reused – maybe very locally.

		1^st date								Hunts LA = H St Ives LA = S St Neots LA = N Ramsay LA = R Norman Cross LA = NC
Troop	Location		1918- 19	1930-31	31-32	33	35	37	38	1945
1^st Hunts	Hartford Hunts	1908	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X H
2^nd	Hunts Grammar School			X	X	X	–
3^rd	St Ives			X	X	X	X	X	X
4^th	Huntingdon		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X H Pack
5^th	Ramsay			X	X	X	X	X	X	X R (3rd R pack)
6^th	Brampton			X	X	X	X	X		X H (inc Pack)
7^th	St Neots		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X N (inc Pack)
8^th	Woodston			X	X	X	X	–
9^th	Buckden			X	X	X	X	X	X	X H
10^th	Kimbolton & Spaldwick			X	X	X	X	X	X	X N
11^th	Eaton Socon								X	X N Dormant pack
12^th			X
13^th
14^th
15^th	Sawtry		X	X	X	X	P only	P		X NC late ’45?
16^th
17^th	Woodwalton		X
18^th
19^th
20^th
21^st			X
22^nd			X
23^rd	Orton Waterville		X	X	X	X	X	–
24^th
25^th
26^th	Yaxley		X
27^th
28^th
29^th
30^th
31^st	Hunts Fletton			X	X	X	–
32^nd
33^rd	Offord			P	X	X	X	X		X NC pack
34^th
35^th
36^th
37^th							P	P
38^th
39^th
40^th
41^st	Godmanchester			X	X	X	X	–
42^nd	Kimbolton school			X	X	X	X	X	X	X N
43^rd				X	X	X	X	X	X
44^th
45^th	Gt & L Gransden			X	X	X	X	X	X	X N
46^th	Stans—			X	X	X	–
47^th	African House			X	X	X	–	X	X
48^th	Beebys (Yaxley)			X	X	X	X	–	X
49^th	Stan			X	X	X	–
50^th	Colne & Buntisham						–			X S
51^st	Houghton				X	X	–		X	X S (Dormant)
52^nd	Ramsay (St Mary)				X	X	–
53^rd	Farcet				P	X	X	X
54^th	St Ives Grammar school				X	X	X	X
55^th	Abbotsley					X	X	–

56^th	Wood—					X	X	X	X
57^th									X
58^th
59^th
60^th
61st	Hemingford Abbots									X S

1965 Amalgamated with Peterborough to become Huntingdon & Peterborough Scout County. See page

JWR Archivist Mar 2023

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