River Cam

North of London, the city is accentuated by the River Cam and buildings both new and old, such as historic King's College Chapel and Cambridge University's modern Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

World's Most Beautiful Cities 2010

Then I am in Cambridge, standing on Midsummer Common, gazing north toward the River Cam.

A Hidden Affair Pam Jenoff 2010

Then I am in Cambridge, standing on Midsummer Common, gazing north toward the River Cam.

A Hidden Affair Pam Jenoff 2010

As a protagonist, de Grey is unappealing: He's good at seeing the big picture, but he's described as an arrogant man who takes pleasure only in working, swilling beer and punting on the River Cam.

The scientific quest to combat aging -- two books take sides Susan Okie 2010

On a cold, gray day in January 1990, the three of them sat at an oak table by the windows of The Mill in Cambridge, an old pub that looks out over a boatyard on the River Cam.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

They came to and breasted a final long hill, descended until they crossed the old stone bridge over the River Cam, and turned right into St. John's St.eet.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

They came to and breasted a final long hill, descended until they crossed the old stone bridge over the River Cam, and turned right into St. John's St.eet.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2002

He sent the boy to Harrow where he was nicknamed Joe and then to Cambridge, to Trinity College, where the young man studied natural sciences with considerable indifference and amused himself in the social life along the Backs, as the banks of the River Cam were called.

THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998

Cyrena fluminalis is very abundant in the gravels of an old terrace of the River Cam, at Barnwell, in the suburbs of Cambridge, and also in glacial gravels at Kelsey Hill in Holderness.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

All in all, the contest made for one of the more unbuttoned events in the recent history of Cambridge, a mostly staid town 55 miles northwest of London that is celebrated for the idyllic beauty of many of its 31 colleges, many of them dating to the Middle Ages and clustered on the grassy banks of the gentle-flowing River Cam.

NYT > Home Page By JOHN F. BURNS 2011