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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 ...
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England retained Cambridgeshire as a sub-region of the East of England region, increasing the number of seats from seven to eight with the creation of St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire.
The constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the former seats of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely.Its first MP, Francis Pym, was a Conservative Cabinet Minister, serving in roles such as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1973–1974) in the Heath government and Secretary of State for Defence (1979–1981), Leader of the House of Commons (1981–1982) and most prominently Foreign ...
In 1974 Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely was merged with Huntingdon and Peterborough to form a new expanded non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire. Huntingdonshire was a historic and administrative county in its own right, whereas the Soke of Peterborough had been an administrative county which was part of the historic county of Northamptonshire.
Ely Library. King's Ely is a coeducational boarding school which was granted a royal charter in 1541 by Henry VIII. King's Ely claims to have beginnings in the re-foundation of St Etheldreda's monastery in 970 by the Benedictine order. The wealthy sent their sons to such places to learn how to read and translate Latin texts.
South East Cambridgeshire included eastern areas, comprising the majority of the former constituency of Cambridgeshire, as well as the city of Ely. South West Cambridgeshire was made up from parts of three existing constituencies: southern parts of Huntingdonshire, including St Neots ; western parts of Cambridgeshire; and the City of Cambridge ...
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The Cambridgeshire Collection is a UK local government institution and part of the Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridgeshire Libraries Local Studies service.It is housed within Cambridge Central Library It collects printed, published and illustrative material relating to the modern county of Cambridgeshire, which includes the former counties of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely.