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East Cambridgeshire (locally known as East Cambs) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Its council is based in the city of Ely . The district also contains the towns of Littleport and Soham and surrounding rural areas, including parts of the Fens .
The Local Government Act 1888 created four small neighbouring administrative counties in the east of England: Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely, Huntingdonshire, and the Soke of Peterborough. Following the Second World War, a Local Government Boundary Commission was formed to review county-level administration in England and Wales. The commission was ...
Cathedral city in England Ely Cathedral city Ely Cathedral from the south-east Ely Location within Cambridgeshire Area 69 sq mi (180 km 2) Population 19,200 (2021 census) • Density 278/sq mi (107/km 2) Civil parish Ely District East Cambridgeshire Shire county Cambridgeshire Region East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town ELY Postcode district CB6, CB7 Dialling code ...
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, Northamptonshire to the west, and Bedfordshire to the south-west.
In 1984, Sutton Village was given a bypass. In 2002, it won the East Cambs, Cambridgeshire and Calor England and Wales Village of the Year awards. The village has known a variety of businesses throughout its history. It was once well known for fruit-growing, but has also been a place for cheese production.
Devil's Dyke or Devil's Ditch is a linear earthen barrier, thought to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, in eastern Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.It runs for 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) in an almost straight line from Reach to Woodditton, with a 10-metre-high (33 ft) ditch and bank system facing southwestwards, blocking the open chalkland between the marshy fens to the north and the formerly wooded hills to ...
East Anglia is an area of Southern England often defined as including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, [1] with parts of Essex sometimes also included. East Anglia is both a geographical and cultural term. Officially, these places form part of the East of England region. [2]
The District of South Cambridgeshire wards of Cottenham, and Milton & Waterbeach. [ 3 ] The bulk of the electorate, including the city of Ely and the town of Soham , was derived from about two-thirds of the abolished constituency of South East Cambridgeshire , with the addition of areas from North East Cambridgeshire ( Littleport , Sutton-in ...