Statistics

As noted elsewhere, I forget where, I regard a church as accessible if it's open, has a keyholder/s listed or is redundant or ruined, and on this basis Huntingdon and the Soke of Peterborough does well with an impressive 71.76% being accessible - even if I didn't gain access to all of them.

Total Churches	131
Keyholder listed	26	19.85%
Locked	37	28.24%
Open	60	45.80%
Redundant/Ruin	8	6.11%
Not visited yet	0	0.00%
Visited	131	100.00%
Accessible churches	94	71.76%

This compares with Cambridgeshire 74.15%, Hertfordshire 58.16%, Essex at 50.69% and a total average across all churches visited of 64.25%.

Interestingly - at least to me - if you combine Huntingdon with Cambridgeshire, i.e. creating modern day Cambridgeshire [but not quite because Peterborough is a Unitary Authority Area which is separate from Cambridgeshire - albeit most people, of a certain age, regard it as being part of Cambridgeshire] the statistic for 'modern' Cambridgeshire changes to 73.21%.

Hunts/Cambs combined
Total Churches	336	100.00%
Keyholder listed	57	16.96%
Locked	90	26.79%
Open	170	50.60%
Redundant/Ruin	19	5.65%
Accessible churches	246	73.21%

Pondersbridge

At first I thought St Thomas, locked, no keyholder, was redundant but the churchyard had been recently mown [I use the word mown in the loosest of senses] and the noticeboard had a 'service this Sunday sign' which looked recent, so, despite appearances, I think it's still in use.

This, my 131st and final Huntingdon/Soke of Peterborough church, was a serious disappointment - an ugly, unkempt and seemingly unloved Victorian building with no redeeming features, accept possibly the apse which made no impression on me at the time.. What a low to finish on.

ST THOMAS. 1869. Yellow brick, lancer-shaped windows, with a S transept and a polygonal NW turret to add the High Victorian touch. Polygonal apse.

Another one Mee missed.

Flickr.