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- n. An inland eastern county of England bordered by Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire.
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“In 1764 he became pastor at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, where in 1766 he married Grace Loftus, daughter of a recently deceased ironmonger.”
william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
“Hotbeds of Anti-Google Maqui, epitomised by the citizens of Broughton in Cambridgeshire, England, are showing determined resistance to the incursion of Google camcars, such as the one on the right.”
“But in Cambridgeshire and much of the south-east, a salary of £45,000 does not bestow on its recipients much of a sense of prosperity.”
The Guardian: Family finances: the abuse you'll get for an income of £45,000 a year
“All good stuff, except that Stilton is in Cambridgeshire (and used to be in Huntingdonshire when it was a county).”
“In maximum security ‘Category A’ jails such as Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire – the subject today of an exclusive report in Live magazine based on unprecedented access to both prisoners and staff – they make up 35 per cent of the inmates, and have converted numerous other prisoners to Islam.”
“As a young man I used to drive about the Fens of what was then called Huntingdonshire (until a Conservative government, if you will believe it, came along one day and told us we were now living in Cambridgeshire, which we had always thought was the county next door).”
“Thanks to Mike Papageorge at AlternativeSource for passing along this piece of very cool news — the Brits are building an entire sustainable town on “the disused Oakington Barracks in Cambridgeshire”:”
“Reindeer were living in Cambridgeshire, Polar bears in London, and Musk ox in Wiltshire.”
“Our Captain, Swaine, a neighbour of mine in Cambridgeshire, was of the old school, and made everything snug at night by shortening sail, to the great amusement of poor Stackpoole's crew, accustomed to carry on night and day.”
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
“I waited until three, when I was obliged to go, as I was to dine with Sir John Lambert, and leave town for my father's in Cambridgeshire by seven o'clock.”
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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