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BBC Radio Cambridgeshire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Cambridgeshire. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at the Cambridge Business Park on Cowley Road in Cambridge. The station also aired on MW, but stopped broadcasting on medium wave on 10 May 2021. [1]
Cambridgeshire was recorded in the Domesday Book as "Grantbridgeshire" (or rather Grentebrigescire) (related to the river Granta). Covering a large part of East Anglia, Cambridgeshire today is the result of several local government unifications.
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:
All follow the national UK-wide BBC News bulletins. In May 2022 the BBC announced the cessation of the Cambridge and Oxford sub-regional television news bulletins as part of plans to move to a digital-first BBC. The last bulletins aired at 18:30 on the 16th December 2022. [17]
The ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire (which includes the area of the Peterborough unitary authority) is divided into eight parliamentary constituencies. There is one borough constituency and seven county constituencies , which each elect one Member of Parliament to represent it in the Parliament of the United Kingdom .
Cambridgeshire County Council is elected every four years using the first past the post system of election. As of 2021 the council consists of 61 council seats, representing 59 electoral divisions. As of 2021 the council consists of 61 council seats, representing 59 electoral divisions.
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 ...
Cottenham is a village in Cambridgeshire, England.Cottenham is one of the larger villages surrounding the city of Cambridge, located around five miles north of the city.. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 6,095.