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Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. Cambridgeshire contains most of the region known as Silicon Fen. The county town is Cambridge.

Cambridgeshire today is the product of several local government unifications. In 1888 when county councils where introduced, two were set up, following the traditional division of Cambridgeshire into the area in the south around Cambridge, and the liberty of the Isle of Ely. In 1965, these two administrative counties were merged to form Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. In 1974, this then merged with the county to the west, Huntingdon and Peterborough (which had been created in 1965 by the merger of Huntingdonshire with the Soke of Peterborough - a part of Northamptonshire which had its own county council). The resulting county was called simply 'Cambridgeshire'.

Since 1998 the City of Peterborough is now administratively separate again, as a unitary authority, but is associated with Cambridgeshire for various purposes, such as police, fire, and the Lieutenancy.

Famous people include Oliver Cromwell, John Major (Former MP of Huntingdonshire and Prime Minister) and Henry Royce, all from Huntingdonshire. Pink Floyd also originates from Cambridgeshire.

Cambridgeshire is twinned with Kreis Viersen in Germany.

Although large parts of the county are extremely low-lying, the highest point is in the village of Great Chishill at 146m/480ft. Other prominent hills are Little Trees Hill and Wandlebury Hill in the Gog Magog Downs, Rivey Hill above Linton, Rowley's Hill and the Madingley Hills.

 

Places of interest

Abbeys: Anglesey Abbey, Denny Abbey, Ramsey Abbey

Brampton Wood SSSI

Buckden towers

Castor Hanglands Nature Reserve

Devil's Dyke Ancient Monument

Down Field Windmill, Soham

Duxford Airfield and Duxford Chapel

Elton Hall

Fowlmere Nature Reserve

Gog Magog Downs

Grafham Water Nature Reserve

Great Gransden Post Mill

Hinchingbrooke House

Houghton Mill

Kimbolton Castle

Lattersey Nature Reserve

Lode Watermill

Long distance footpaths: Hereward Way, Icknield Way, Nene Way, Ouse Valley Way, Three Shires Bridleway

Nene Valley Railway, a heritage railway

Paxton Pits Nature Reserve 

Peckover House & Garden, Wisbech

Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum

River Great Ouse, River Cam

RSPB Nene Washes

RSPB Ouse Washes, a reserve of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

The Ouse Washes consisting of the Old Bedford River and the New Bedford River (also known as the Hundred Foot Drain)

Wandlebury Country Park and the Gog Magog Downs

Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve

Wimpole Hall

Wisbech and March Bramleyline, a heritage railway

WWT Welney - a Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust nature reserve on the Ouse Washes

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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