Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a historic county in the East Anglia region of England, part of the United Kingdom.Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Cambridge and Peterborough.
Cambridge
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Cambridge is a university city in Cambridgeshire in England. 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.
Peterborough
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Peterborough is a city in Cambridgeshire in East Anglia, with a population of 202,259 in 2019. It's industrial and ringed by bland "New Town" residential districts, yet has an attractive historic centre around its cathedral, where two British monarchs were buried.
Ely
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Ely is a small, historical cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England. Ely combines two sides: it is a pocket-sized medieval city that retains much of its medieval character, and at the same time a relaxed and tolerant market town, with increasing links to Cambridge.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Huntingdon and Wisbech.
Huntingdon
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Huntingdon is a sleepy historic town in Cambridgeshire, England, on the banks of the River Ouse, best known as the birthplace of English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell.
Wisbech
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Wisbech is a town of 32,000 people in Cambridgeshire, England. Wisbech is noteworthy for its fine examples of Georgian architecture, particularly the parade of houses along the North Brink, which includes the National Trust property of Peckover House and the Crescent, a circus surrounding Wisbech Castle.
St Neots
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St Neots is a riverside market town just north of the border between Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. Despite some pretty parks and a few historic buildings, St Neots offers relatively little to entice the traveller, but is a pleasant enough stopover or base for touring the region.
Ramsey
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Ramsey is a small market town in Cambridgeshire. Ramsey is an historic fenland town with an abbey founded in 969. It's a quiet place where you can experience rural England but has enough life and facilities to enable you to stay there.
Duxford
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Duxford is a small village in the English county of Cambridgeshire, approximately 8 miles south of Cambridge. It is probably best known as the location of a Second World War British and American airfield, today serving as an important branch of the Imperial War Museum.
Fowlmere
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Fowlmere is one of the southernmost villages in Cambridgeshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 1,206. It is very close to the Imperial War Museum Duxford, and 9 miles southwest of the city of Cambridge.
Cambridgeshire
- Type: Region with 850,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county of England, UK
- Also known as: “Cambs.”, “Ceremonial County Cambridgeshire”, and “County of Cambridge”
- Neighbors: Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Suffolk
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cambridgeshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Cambridgeshire”
- Arabic: “كامبريدجشير”
- Aragonese: “Cambridgeshire”
- Armenian: “Քեմբրիջշիր”
- Asturian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Azerbaijani: “Kembricşir qraflığı”
- Balinese: “Cambridgeshire”
- Basque: “Cambridgeshire”
- Belarusian: “Кембрыджшыр”
- Bengali: “কেমব্রিজশায়ার”
- Breton: “Cambridgeshire”
- Bulgarian: “Кеймбриджшър”
- Catalan: “Cambridgeshire”
- Cebuano: “Cambridgeshire”
- Chinese: “Cambridgeshire”
- Chinese: “剑桥郡”
- Chinese: “劍橋郡”
- Cornish: “Konteth Kargront”
- Czech: “Cambridgeshire”
- Danish: “Cambridgeshire”
- Dutch: “Cambridgeshire”
- Esperanto: “Cambridgeshire”
- Estonian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Finnish: “Cambridgeshire”
- French: “Cambridgeshire”
- Galician: “Cambridgeshire”
- Georgian: “კემბრიჯშირი”
- German: “Cambridgeshire”
- Greek: “Κέιμπριτζσιρ”
- Gujarati: “કેમ્બ્રિજશાયર”
- Hebrew: “קיימברידג’שייר”
- Hindi: “केमब्रिजशायर”
- Hungarian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Icelandic: “Cambridgeshire”
- Ido: “Cambridgeshire”
- Indonesian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Interlingua: “Cambridgeshire”
- Irish: “Cambridgeshire”
- Italian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Japanese: “ケンブリッジシャー”
- Kannada: “ಕೇಂಬ್ರಿಜ್ಷೈರ್”
- Korean: “케임브리지셔주”
- Kurdish: “Cambridgeshire”
- Ladin: “Cambridgeshire”
- Latin: “Cantabrigiensis comitatus”
- Latvian: “Kembridžšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Kembridžšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Cambridgeshire”
- Macedonian: “Кембриџшир”
- Manx: “Cambridgeshire”
- Marathi: “केंब्रिजशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cambridgeshire”
- Mirandese: “Cambridgeshire”
- Northern Frisian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cambridgeshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cambridgeshire”
- Norwegian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cambridgeshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Grantabrycgscīr”
- Ossetian: “Кембриджшир”
- Persian: “کمبریجشایر”
- Persian: “کمبریجشر”
- Polish: “Cambridgeshire”
- Portuguese: “Cambridgeshire”
- Romanian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Russian: “Кембриджшир”
- Scots: “Cambridgeshire”
- Scots: “Cambrigshire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Chambridge”
- Serbian: “Кембриџшир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Slovak: “Cambridgeshire”
- Slovenian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Spanish: “Cambridgeshire”
- Swedish: “Cambridgeshire”
- Tajik: “Кембридҷшир”
- Tamil: “கேம்பிறிட்ஜ்ஷிர்”
- Tatar: “Кембриҗшир”
- Telugu: “కేంబ్రిడ్జ్ షైర్”
- Thai: “เคมบริดจ์เชอร์”
- Turkish: “Cambridgeshire”
- Turkish: “Törensel Cambridgeshire Kontluğu”
- Ukrainian: “Кембриджшир”
- Urdu: “کیمبرج شائر”
- Urdu: “کیمبرجشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de Cambridge”
- Vietnamese: “Cambridgeshire”
- Volapük: “Cambridgeshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cambridgeshire”
- Welsh: “Swydd Gaergrawnt”
- Western Frisian: “Cambridgeshire”
- Western Panjabi: “کیمبرج شائر”
- Western Panjabi: “کیمبرجشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “剑桥郡”
- Yiddish: “קעמברידזשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “劍橋郡”
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