UK Travel Guide - Fascinating Cambridgeshire

Fascinating Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a county of Britain that adjoins the borders of Lincolnshire in the northern side, Essex and Hertfordshire in the south, Norfolk in the northeast, Suffolk in the east and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.

Modern Cambridgeshire got created from the ancient county of Cambridgeshire, together these two grew up with the earlier county of the Isle of Ely, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough. It contained most of the area that s popularly known as Silicon Fen. The county town of this County is Cambridge.

The earliest known Neolithic permanent settlements in the United Kingdom are found in Cambridgeshire as it is noted along with sites at Balbridie and Fengate.

Cambridgeshire was registered in the Domesday Book as Grantbridgeshire of the River Granta. It covers a huge part of East Anglia & today it is the result of several local government s unity. When county councils were introduced in 1888, separate councils were also set up, following the division of Cambridgeshire traditionally in two parts;

1. the liberty of the Isle of Ely

2. the area in the south around Cambridge

These two administrative counties were merged in 1965 to form Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely.This merged with the county to the west under the Local Government Act of 1972, Huntingdon and Peterborough (which itself was created in 1965 after the merger of Huntingdonshire & the Soke of Peterborough previously it was this part which had its own county council & was called Northamptonshire). The county that emerged out of it was called simply Cambridgeshire.

Since 1998, the City of Peterborough has been a separate controlled area, as a governing authority, but still was associated with Cambridgeshire for ceremonial intentions such as Lieutenancy and functions like the fire service and policing.

Consumers charity Plantlife unofficially appointed Cambridgeshire s County flower as the Pasqueflower.

A big quantity of archaeological finds were made in East Cambridgeshire from the Stone, the Bronze and the Iron Age. Most of these items were found from Isleham.
Cambridgeshire Regiment (also called Fen Tigers) county s army unit fought in South Africa, during WWI and WWII.

Because of its flat terrain and closeness to the continent during WW2, many Russian Air Force and USA s Air Force bases were created for Bomber Command. Recognizing this, the only American WW2 burial ground in Britain is located in Madingley Cambridge s Memorial and American Cemetery.

Many English counties have got nicknames for their own people, such as a Yellowbelly from Lincolnshire and a Tyke from Yorkshire; the historical nicknames for the people of Cambridgeshire are Cambridgeshire Crane or Cambridgeshire Camel , with reference to a wildfowl which were found in abundance in the fens.

Cambridgeshire s original historical documents that are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies.

Vast areas of this county are utterly low lying and Holme Fen is quite recognized as these are the UK s lowest point, physically at 9 ft (2.75 m) below sea level. Same way highest point exists in the village of Great Chishill also in this County at 480 ft (146 m) above sea level. Other significant hills are, Rivey Hill above Linton, Rowley s Hill and the Madingley HillsWandlebury Hill and Little Trees Hill in the Gog Magog Downs.

Here is a chart of general tendency of regional gross value that s added in Cambridgeshire s current basic prices published by Office for National Statistics with its figures reaching millions of English Pounds Sterling (£).

Most of Cambridgeshire deals with agricultural. Based in Huntingdon is AWG plc. A few bases of RAF are in the Huntingdon and St Ives area. Adjoining Cambridge is the area of so called Silicon Fen with high technology (computing, electronics and biotechnology) companies. ARM Limited is located in Cherry Hinton.

The second oldest university in the English speaking world, the University of Cambridge is situated here and is considered as one of the most significant and prestigious academic institutions on globe. The regional centers of the Open University and one of the campuses of Anglia Ruskin University is located in Cambridge.