River Cam

The River Cam is a chalk river and the main river flowing through in eastern . After leaving Cambridge, it flows north and east before joining the River Great Ouse to the south of , at Pope's Corner.
Wikipedia
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Places of Interest

Highlights include The Fitzwilliam Museum and Peterhouse.

Museum
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is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central .

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. has around 300 undergraduate and 175 graduate students, and 54 fellows.

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded on 28 July 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and women.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cambridge and Newnham.

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is a university city in in . It is a city of crocuses and daffodils on the Backs, of green open spaces and cattle grazing only 500 yards from the market square.

Suburb
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is a suburb and electoral ward in , England. As of the 2021 UK census, the ward had a population of 11,374.

Locality
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Skaters' Meadow is a 2-hectare nature reserve in Newnham Croft, , UK. It is owned by Cambridge Past, Present & Future and leased for management by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

River Cam

Latitude
52.19675° or 52° 11′ 48″ north
Longitude
0.11342° or 0° 6′ 48″ east
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
Open location code
9F4254W7+P9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 169783540
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­river
Geo­Names ID
9035028
Wiki­data ID
Q944772
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Satellite Map

Discover River Cam from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“River Cam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نهر كام”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Cam”
  • Belarusian: “Кам”
  • Catalan: “riu Cam”
  • Catalan: “Riu Cam”
  • Cebuano: “River Cam”
  • Chinese: “劍河”
  • Chinese: “卡姆河”
  • Chinese: “康河”
  • Czech: “Cam”
  • Dutch: “Cam”
  • Dutch: “River Cam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كام”
  • French: “Cam”
  • German: “Cam”
  • German: “River Cam”
  • Italian: “Cam”
  • Japanese: “カム川”
  • Japanese: “キャム川”
  • Japanese: “ケム川”
  • Korean: “캠강”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cam i England”
  • Norwegian: “Cam”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Granta”
  • Persian: “رود کم”
  • Polish: “Cam”
  • Russian: “Кам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cam”
  • Slovenian: “Cam”
  • Slovenian: “reka Cam”
  • Slovenian: “River Cam”
  • Spanish: “Rio Cam”
  • Spanish: “Río Cam”
  • Swedish: “Cam”
  • Swedish: “River Cam (vattendrag i Storbritannien, Cambridgeshire)”
  • Swedish: “River Cam”
  • Turkish: “Cam Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Кем”
  • Urdu: “دریائے کیم”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Cam”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Cam”
  • Welsh: “Afon Cam”
  • Western Frisian: “Cam”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریائے کیم”
  • Yue Chinese: “劍河”

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