Cambridgeshire

American

[keym-brij-sheer, -sher] / ˈkeɪm brɪdʒˌʃɪər, -ʃər /

noun

a county in E England. 1,316 sq. mi. (3,410 sq. km).

Cambridgeshire British

/ -ʃə, ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒˌʃɪə /

noun

a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)

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The Great Fen vision began in 2000 with the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire joining with other bodies to create a new wetland landscape.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

"We're going to be launching more rockets soon," co-president Ben Sutcliffe, 22, told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Jones contacted BBC News after reading how North West Cambridgeshire MP Sam Carling had criticised her former religion in Parliament.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Council staff in South Cambridgeshire, as well as those in bin collection and planning departments shared with Cambridge City Council, work about 85% of their contracted hours with no reduction in pay.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

To many charming byways amid the streamlets and the meadows and the gentle slopes of this southern Cambridgeshire the seven highways out of Cambridge will successively conduct us.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

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