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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cambridge, England. Prior to 16th century ... Map of Cambridge, 1574 Map of Cambridge, 1688. 1505 ...
English: Map of Cambridge, England (1886) Date: 1 January 1886: Source: Own work: ... File history. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
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 ...
The shire-system of East Anglia was in all probability not definitively settled before the Norman Conquest, but during the Danish occupation of the 9th century the district possessed a certain military and political organization round Cambridge, its chief town, from where the constitution and demarcation of the later shire most likely ...
History of the city of Cambridge and the University of Cambridge, England. See also Category:History of Oxford. Subcategories.
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.
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:
The Cambridge to Haverhill railway line that opened in 1865 crossed Great Abington just south of the village, but closed in 1967. [3] The medieval Cambridge to Colchester road that was the main route through the village was by-passed in the 1960s. [6]