Cambridge

Cambridge is the county town of Cambridgeshire, stands in flat country, on the Cam, 28 miles northeast of London. It is an ancient city, with interesting archæological remains. There are some fine buildings, the oldest round church in England, Holy Sepulchre, and a Roman Catholic church. The glory of the city is the University, founded in the 12th century, with its colleges housed in stately buildings, chapels, libraries, museums, &c., which shares with Oxford the academic prestige of England. It has been traditionally laying emphasis on mathematical, as Oxford on classical, culture. Among its eminent men have been Bacon, Newton, Cromwell, Pitt, Thackeray, Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, and Tennyson.

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Cambridge in Boston, Cambridge University, Cambridgeshire, Cambronne, Cambuscan