The Parish of Holywell

 Holywell-cum-Needingworth 

This is a brand new website all about the Huntingdonshire villages of Holywell and Needingworth. The site is being built by Jevstar Ltd who have already created website for the main towns in the district and this one represents our first one providing information for one of the parishes.

Organisation and businesses in the village can apply for membership so that they can add, edit and manage their own information on the site from their own browser. See the site for more information.

Visit Holywell Parish Website

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The Parish Council is the level of local government in Huntingdonshire nearest to the people of Holywell-cum-Needingworth. The old parishes were formed at a time when there was little difference, to the local people, between the Church and the State. A parish like Holywell-cum-Needingworth usually formed around a village or other small community and used to be centred around the Parish Church. In the late 1800s Church and State separated but the same area is now represented as a local authority by the Holywell-cum-Needingworth Parish Council and the Church of England by the Parochial Church Council.

The Parish Councils have many powers and some duties. (Cf. The Good Councillors Guide).

An example of a power is the one that allows the purchase and operation of street lighting. One duty requires the council to open the meetings to the press and public, with few exceptions. They manage local amenities in Holywell-cum-Needingworth and have a watching brief on local issues and their opinion is noted by those higher authorities in matters concerning them such as local planning issues.

Are you looking for your ancestors in Holywell-cum-Needingworth

We get many requests from people looking for their ancestors but we do not carry that kind information as we are concerned with places rather than people. So we provide you with a link to one of the best UK online ancestry databases on the Internet.

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Your own Local Holywell News and Local Photographs

You can upload news items, articles, stories and images (photographs) of Holywell that will appear on these pages. Follow the link immediately below for more information on how to do and to see what's been uploaded already.

Local news and editorial about Holywell submitted by website users

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The 5 latest local pictures of Holywell

Queens Head Public House	The Queens Head Public House	St John the Baptist	Tower of St John the Baptist	Holy Well
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Local Holywell Services

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Organisations in or about Holywell

Some of the organisations that we have included in our Holywell-cum-Needingworth pages appear on the map above providing they have a bricks and mortar premises in Holywell however others operate entirely on the internet but are based in Holywell or their website is entirely about Holywell. You can visit those organisations that we have decided to include on our Organisations in or about Holywell-cum-Needingworth pages.

Local Visitor Attractions and Event Venues

Attractions and Event Venues are shown on the map and sidebar at the top of this page but if you would like a list of them ordered by type where you can select the location you require for more information including location map, address, contact details and forthcoming events in our section about Visitor Attractions and Event Venues in Holywell

Alternatively you may follow this link to see what the attractions in the surrounding area have to offer

Calling all Professional Entertainers based in Holywell

We have completed (Jan 09) the build of a new section to promote professional British entertainers, of all types and popularity.

If you are a professional entertainer working in the UK then follow this for more information about what we are doing and if Holywell is where you (or your group) are based and you would like to enter your details into our exciting new section about British Entertainers go here Professional Entertainers Application Form

Employment opportunities in Holywell

To assist everyone during the current troubled times we are displaying here employment opportunities and job vacancies in the Parish of Holywell and as in some of the smaller locations that may well return nothing we are also showing available vacancies in the surrounding area. If you're looking for a job see what is here Employment opportunities and job vacancies in or near to Holywell, good luck!

Public Events in and around Holywell

There must be something going on in Holywell-cum-Needingworth?

The problem is the organisers have not told us about it!

If you are organising an event in Holywell-cum-Needingworth then let us know about it and we will put a link to your event here and what's more we'll do it for FREE. The earlier you do it the better as not only will visitors to this Holywell-cum-Needingworth page see details of your event but so will visitors to our Huntingdonshire pages and really big events will be displayed at national level too. Follow this link for more information on how to add an event listing.

It's FREE, so enter your event now!

Hotels, Apartments and B&B's in Holywell

We have teamed up with LATE ROOMS and BOOKING.COM so that we can offer you the choice of over 8,000 hotels in the UK.

Click the link below to view a map showing the location of accommodation in this area

Map of accommodation in the Huntingdonshire area

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Old Ferry Boat

In January 2009 we joined forces with Google Friends to allow our users to socialise and leave messages for their friends and family almost anywhere in the UK. The messages you enter on this page only appears on this page but you can visit the rest of the UK on this site and leave messages there too. We'll add more facilities as the development progresses

More information and more graffiti on the wall in Holywell

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Books about Holywell-cum-Needingworth*

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A few of the images from around the Parish of Holywell

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Holywell

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