administration buildings in Cambridge. The county council provides county-wide services such as major road infrastructure, fire and rescue, education, social services, libraries and heritage services. Cambridgeshire County Council consists of 69 councillors representing 60 electoral divisions. Molesworth is part of the electoral division of Sawtry and Ellington and is represented on the county council by one councillor. At Westminster Molesworth is in the parliamentary constituency of North West Cambridgeshire, and elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Molesworth is represented in the House of Commons by Shailesh Vara (Conservative). Shailesh Vara has represented the constituency since 2005. The previous member of parliament was Brian Mawhinney (Conservative) who represented the constituency between 1997 and 2005. Geography The village and parish lies on a bedrock of Oxford clay and in regions there are superficial glaciofluvial and river terrace deposits of sand and gravel from the Quaternary period, together with alluvium (clay and silt) from the same period. The land in the north of the parish is characterised as Oadby Member Diamicton, again from the Quaternary period, with rocks formed during Ice Age conditions by glaciers scouring the land. The village, which is approximately above sea level, lies just to the north of Junction 16 of the A14 road that runs from the Port of Felixstowe to the Catthorpe Interchange, Leicestershire. Demography Census: Molesworth 1801–1931 Census: Brington and Molesworth 1951, 1971, 1991 Census: Brington and Molesworth (Parish) 2001–2011 Culture and Community There is a public house called the Cross Keys in Molesworth. Religious Sites The Anglican church at Molesworth is dedicated to St Peter and is a Grade II listed building standing on the west of the village. The church is in the deanery of Huntingdon in the diocese of Ely. The chancel was built c.1270 and the nave was re-built and the tower added in the 15th century. The church was restored in 1884–85. The presence of several 12th century stones suggests that an earlier stone church may have existed on the same site. References Villages in Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire Former civil parishes in Cambridgeshire