Cambridgeshire love

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  • proper noun An inland eastern county of England bordered by Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Family finances: the abuse you'll get for an income of £45,000 a year Patrick Collinson 2010

  • In 1764 he became pastor at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, where in 1766 he married Grace Loftus, daughter of a recently deceased ironmonger.

    March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • 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.

    Google SnoopMobiles in Canada 2009

  • 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 2009

  • All good stuff, except that Stilton is in Cambridgeshire (and used to be in Huntingdonshire when it was a county).

    A visit to pork pie country 2008

  • All good stuff, except that Stilton is in Cambridgeshire (and used to be in Huntingdonshire when it was a county).

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • 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.

    UK: Imprisoned Muslim fanatics to be deprogrammed 2008

  • 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).

    Referendum News 2007

  • 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).

    Archive 2007-07-22 2007

  • 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”:

    Archive for » 2006 » March : Sustainablog 2006

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