Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire
Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County
Region:	East of England
Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 15th 3,389 km² Ranked 15th 3,046 km²
Admin HQ:	Cambridge
ISO 3166-2:	GB-CAM
ONS code:	12
NUTS 3:	UKH12
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 29th 716,285 211 / km² Ranked 21st 558,323
Ethnicity:	94.6% White 2.6% S.Asian
Politics
Cambridgeshire County Council http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/
Executive:	Conservative
Members of Parliament
Anne Campbell, Helen Clark, Jonathan Djanogly, Andrew Lansley, Brian Mawhinney, Malcolm Moss, James Paice
Districts
Cambridge South Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire Fenland East Cambridgeshire Peterborough (Unitary)

Cambridgeshire 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. 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 from Cambridgeshire include Oliver Cromwell and Henry Royce, both born in Huntingdonshire.

Cambridgeshire is twinned with Kreis Viersen in Germany.

Cities

• Cambridge
• Peterborough
• Ely

Towns and villages

East Cambridgeshire

• Aldreth, Ashley
• Barway, Blackhorse Drove, Bottisham, Brinkley, Burrough Green, Burwell
• Chettisham, Cheveley, Chippenham, Commercial End, Coveney
• Ditton Green, Downham, Dullingham
• Fordham
• Haddenham
• Isleham
• Kennett, Kirtling
• Little Ditton, Little Downham, Little Ouse, Littleport, Little Thetford, Lode, Long Meadow
• Mepal
• Prickwillow, Pymore
• Queen Adelaide
• Reach
• Saxon Street, Snailwell, Soham, Stetchworth, Stretham, Stuntney, Sutton, Sutton Gault, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior
• Upend, Upware
• Wardy Hill, Wentworth, Westley Waterless, Wicken, Wilburton, Witcham, Witchford, Woodditton

Fenland

• Benwick
• Chatteris, Christchurch, Coates, Coldham, Collett's Bridge
• Doddington
• Eastrea, Elm, Euximoor
• Fitton End, Foul Anchor, Four Gotes, Friday Bridge
• Gorefield, Guyhirn
• Leverington
• Manea, March, Murrow
• Newton
• Parson Drove, Pondersbridge
• Ramsey Mereside, Ring's End
• Stonea
• Tholomas Drove, Thorney, Thorney Toll, Tips End, Turves, Tydd Gote, Tydd St Giles
• Welches Dam, Welney, Westry, Whittlesey, Wimblington, Wisbech, Wisbech St Mary

Huntingdonshire

• Abbots Ripton, Abbotsley, Alconbury, Alconbury Weston, Alwalton
• Barham, Bluntisham, Brampton, Brington, Broughton, Buckden, Buckworth, Bury, Bythorn
• Caldecote, Catworth, Chesterton, Colne, Conington, Coppingford, Covington
• Denton, Diddington
• Earith, Easton, Ellington, Elton, Eynesbury Hardwicke
• Farcet, Fenstanton, Fenton, Folksworth
• Glatton, Godmanchester, Grafham, Great Gidding, Great Gransden, Great Paxton, Great Staughton
• Haddon, Hail Weston, Hamerton, Hemingford Abbots, Hemingford Grey, Hilton, Holme, Holywell, Houghton, Huntingdon
• Keyston, Kimbolton, Kings Ripton
• Leighton Bromswold, Little Gidding, Little Paxton
• Midloe, Molesworth, Morborne
• Needingworth
• Offord Cluny, Offord D'Arcy, Oldhurst, Old Weston
• Perry, Pidley
• Ramsey, Ramsey Forty Foot, Ramsey Heights, Ramsey St Mary's, The Raveleys
• St Ives, St Neots, Sawtry, Sibson, Somersham, Southoe, Spaldwick, Steeple Gidding, Stibbington, Stilton, Stonely, Stow Longa, The Stukeleys
• Tetworth, Tilbrook, Toseland
• Upton, Upwood
• Warboys, Waresley, Washingley, Water Newton, Winwick, Wistow, Woodwalton, Woolley, Woodhurst, Wyton
• Yaxley, Yelling

South Cambridgeshire

• Abington Pigotts, Arrington
• Babraham, Balsham, Barrington, Bartlow, Barton, Bar Hill, Bassingbourn, Bourn, Boxworth
• Caldecote, Cambourne, Camps End, Cardinals Green, Carlton, Castle Camps, Caxton, Childerley, Chittering, Comberton, Conington, Coton, Cottenham, Croxton, Croydon
• Dry Drayton, Duxford
• East Hatley, Elsworth, Eltisley
• Fen Ditton, Fen Drayton, Fowlmere, Foxton, Fulbourn
• Gamlingay, Girton, Grantchester, Graveley, Great Chishill, Great Abington, Great Eversden, Great Shelford, Great Wilbraham, Guilden Morden
• Hardwick, Harlton, Harston, Haslingfield, Hatley, Hatley St George, Hauxton, Heydon, Highfields, Hildersham, Hinxton, Histon, Horningsea, Horseheath
• Ickleton, Impington
• Kingston, Knapwell, Kneesworth
• Landbeach, Linton, Litlington, Little Abington, Little Chishill, Little Eversden, Little Gransden, Little Shelford, Little Wilbraham, Lolworth, Longstanton, Longstowe
• Madingley, Melbourn, Meldreth, Milton
• Newton
• Oakington, Orwell, Over
• Pampisford, Papworth St Agnes, Papworth Everard
• Quy
• Rampton
• Sawston, Shepreth, Shingay, Shudy Camps, Stapleford, Steeple Morden, Stow, Streetley End, Swavesey
• Tadlow, Teversham, Thriplow, Toft
• Waterbeach, Wendy, Weston Colville, Weston Green, Westwick, West Wickham, West Wratting, Whaddon, Whittlesford, Whittlesford Bridge, Willingham, Wimpole

Places of interest

• Anglesey Abbey, Denny Abbey, Ramsey Abbey
• Duxford Airfield and Duxford Chapel
• Kimbolton Castle
• Buckden towers
• Wimpole Hall
• Elton Hall
• Hinchinbrooke House
• Peckover House, Wisbech
• Lode Watermill
• Down Field Windmill, Soham
• Great Gransden Post Mill
• Houghton Mill
• Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum
• River Great Ouse, River Cam
• The Ouse Washes consisting of the Old Bedford River and the New Bedford River (also known as the Hundred Foot Drain)
• RSPB Ouse Washes, a reserve of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
• Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve
• WWT Welney - a Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve on the Ouse Washes
• RSPB Nene Washes
• Grafham Water Nature Reserve
• Paxton Pits Nature Reserve
• Brampton Wood SSSI
• Fowlmere Nature Reserve
• Castor Hanglands Nature Reserve
• Lattersey Nature Reserve
• Long distance footpaths: Hereward Way, Icknield Way, Nene Way, Ouse Valley way, Three Shires Bridleway
• Nene Valley Railway, a heritage railway