St Neots — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

St Neots, a market-town of Huntingdonshire, on the Ouse, 8 miles SSW. of Huntingdon. It takes name from Alfred the Great's eldest brother, whose relics were translated from St Neot in Cornwall to a Benedictine monastery founded at Eynesbury, close by, in 974; and it has a fine parish church, with a tower 156 feet high, a corn exchange (1863), and manufactures of iron, paper, &c. Pop. (1851) 2949; (1891) 4077. See Gorham's History of Eynesbury and St Neots (2 vols. 1824).