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Cambridge (/ ˈ k eɪ m b r ɪ dʒ / ⓘ KAYM-brij) [5] is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, 55 miles (89 km) north of London.
The University of Cambridge was one of only two universities to hold parliamentary seats in the Parliament of England and was later one of 19 represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created by a Royal charter of 1603 and returned two members of parliament until 1950 when it was abolished by the Representation ...
Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907. London: Edward Lloyd. Arthur Gray (1908), The dual origin of the town of Cambridge, Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, OCLC 14031217, OL 14005338M; Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Cambridge", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It includes places in the former county of Huntingdonshire , now a district of Cambridgeshire. Contents:
St Giles' Church was founded in 1092 by an endowment from Hugolina de Gernon, the wife of Picot of Cambridge, baron of Bourn and county sheriff. [5] According to the 12th-century writings of Alfred of Beverley, Hugolina, who had been suffering from a long illness which the king's physician and other doctors had been unable to treat, had prayed to Saint Giles on her death bed promising to build ...
The area that is now Cambridgeshire was settled at about the 6th century by groups of Angles, who pushed their way up the Ouse and the Cam, and established themselves in the fen-district, where they became known as the Gyrwas, the districts corresponding to the modern counties of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire being distinguished as the lands of the North Gyrwas and the South Gyrwas ...
City of Cambridge Rowing Club, a rowing club based in Cambridge, England; See also. Town of Cambridge; Cambridge (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 25 ...
The River Cam (/ ˈ k æ m /) is the main river flowing through Cambridge in eastern England.After leaving Cambridge, it flows north and east before joining the River Great Ouse to the south of Ely, at Pope's Corner.