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Schools In Cambridgeshire
This is a list of schools in Cambridgeshire, England. State-funded schools Primary schools *Abbots Ripton CE Primary School, Huntingdon *Alconbury CE Primary School, Huntingdon *Alderman Jacobs School, Whittlesey *Alderman Payne Primary School, Wisbech St Mary *All Saints Interchurch Academy, March *Arbury Primary School, Cambridge *The Ashbeach Primary School, Huntingdon *Babraham CE Primary School, Cambridge *Bar Hill Community Primary School, Cambridge *Barnabas Oley CE Primary School, Great Gransden *Barrington CE Primary School, Barrington *Barton CE Primary School, Barton *Bassingbourn Primary School, Bassingbourn *Beaupre Community Primary School, Outwell *The Bellbird Primary School, Sawston *Benwick Primary School, Benwick *Bewick Bridge Community Primary School, Cambridge *Bottisham Primary School, Bottisham *Bourn CE Primary Academy, Bourn *Brampton Village Primary School, Brampton *Brington CE Primary School, Brington *Buckden CE Primary School, Buckden *Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterborough
Peterborough ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The city is north of London, on the River Nene. As of the 2021 census, Peterborough had a population of 192,178, while the population of the district was 215,673. Human settlement in the area began before the Bronze Age, as can be seen at the Flag Fen archaeological site to the east of the city centre. There is evidence of Ancient Rome, Roman occupation. The History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon period saw the establishment of a monastery, Medeshamstede, which later became Peterborough Cathedral. In the 19th century, the population grew rapidly after the coming of the railway. The area became known for its brickworks and engineering. After the Second World War, industrial employment fell and growth was limited until Peterborough was designated a New towns in the United Kingdom, n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brampton, Cambridgeshire
Brampton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, about south-west of Huntingdon. It lies within Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. According to the 2011 UK census Brampton had a population of 4,862 (slightly down on the 2001 UK census figure of 5,030) A 2019 estimate puts it at 5,462. History Historically Brampton was variously known as Brantune (11th century), Brantone or Bramptone (12th–13th centuries), and Brauntone or Brampton (13th century). Scattered human remains dating back 1600–2000 years have been found in one or more gardens of houses near the local primary school. The origin of these has yet to identified. In the Domesday Book survey of 1086, Brampton was listed as Brantune in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire. It had two manors, yielding aggregate rents to their lords of the manors in 1066 of £20, which had increased to £21.5 by 1086. Domesday recorded a total of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coates, Cambridgeshire
Coates is a small village close to the town of Whittlesey, in the English county of Cambridgeshire. Coates has a shop which includes a post office. Description The village has two greens, North Green and South Green, which are divided by the busy A605 road, which runs through the village. There is a small shop which includes a post office. Coates has a church, a village hall and a primary school. Local businesses include a Chinese takeaway (Lucky House), two pubs (The Carpenters Arms and The Vine), a violin shop (Simon Watkin Violins), a manufacturer of blinds housed in the former chapel on North Green, and a number of farms. It also has a war memorial on North Green. The village has its own fishing lake. It was awarded Fenland's best kept village in 1993. It is famous for its Petanque competitions as people from different countries such as the Netherlands and Austria come to compete. There is a well supported traditional annual Village Show. History The origins of the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisbech
Wisbech ( ) is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the Fenland District, Fenland district in Cambridgeshire, England. In 2011 it had a population of 31,573. The town lies in the far north-east of Cambridgeshire, bordering Norfolk and only 5 miles (8 km) south of Lincolnshire. The tidal River Nene running through the town is spanned by two road bridges. Wisbech is in the Isle of Ely (a former administrative county) and has been described as "the Capital of The Fens". Wisbech is noteworthy for its fine examples of Georgian architecture, particularly the parade of houses along the North Brink, which includes the National Trust property of Peckover House and Garden, Peckover House and the The Crescent, Wisbech, Crescent, part of a crescent (architecture), circus surrounding Wisbech Castle. History Toponymy The place name "Wisbech" is first attested in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' for the year 656, where it appears as ''Wisbeach''. It is recorded in the 1086 Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheveley
The village of Cheveley is situated in the county of Cambridgeshire and lies about four miles east-south-east of the market town of Newmarket. The population of the civil parish was 1,990 at the 2011 Census. Cheveley falls within the local government district of East Cambridgeshire. Geographically, Cheveley stands on the third highest point in Cambridgeshire at above sea level. The hamlet of Cheveley Park, a mile from Cheveley, is the home of Cheveley Park Stud. History The origin of the village dates to the tenth century. Its name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 and derives from Old English. The second element derives from Old English ''lēah'' 'open land'. The first element was long thought to be the word ''chaff'', but more recent research suggests that Old English ''ceaf'' could also denote the chaffinch. Thus the name probably meant 'open land characterised by chaffinches'. In the mid-2010s, a smithy in use between c.1100 and c. 1220 was excavated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterton, Cambridge
Chesterton is a suburb in Cambridge, England. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 UK census, the suburb had a population of 18,620 people. History Archaeological evidence indicates that the area that is now Chesterton has been inhabited since at least the Bronze Age. In Anglo-Saxon times Chesterton formed part of a larger vill spanning the River Cam. The rest of the vill became the ancient borough, borough of Cambridge sometime after the 8th century, but Chesterton was excluded from the early borough. Chesterton was an ancient parish. The parish included the village and adjoining rural areas generally to the north of it; at the western end of the parish it included Cambridge Castle. Chesterton was governed by its parish vestry and manorial courts in the same way as most rural areas until 1880, when the parish was made a Local board of health#Local Government Act 1858, local government district, governed by an elected local board. Such districts were reconstituted as Urba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherry Hinton
Cherry Hinton is a village and electoral ward in Cambridge, England. As of the 2021 UK census, the ward's population was 9,343 people. History The rectangular parish of Cherry Hinton occupies the western corner of Flendish hundred on the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Cambridge. (See Hundreds of Cambridgeshire.) In 1931 the parish had a population of 1254. On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Cambridge. Pictures and a description of St Andrew's parish church appear at the Cambridgeshire Churches website. There is an entry relating to Cherry Hinton in the Domesday Book: ''"Hintone: Count Alan. 4 mills."'' ( Alan Rufus ‘Alan the Red', one of the Counts of Brittany, confiscated Hinton Manor from Edith, the (so-called “common law”) first wife of Harold II of England — Edith Swanneck: 'Eddeva The Fair') The War Ditches are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort (55 metres in diameter), now mostly lost to quarrying. (See Cherry Hinton Pit) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Camps (village)
Castle Camps is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is south-east of Cambridge and near to the borders of Suffolk and Essex and to the town of Haverhill. The population of the parish (including Camps End) was 684 at the 2011 Census. Previously named Great Camps and Camps Green, the village is named after Castle Camps, the castle within the parish's boundaries. History The parish of Castle Camps lies in the very south-eastern corner of Cambridgeshire. Roughly triangular in shape, it covers an area of . Its south-western and south-eastern borders separate it from Essex with the former following the line of the ancient woodland that separated the counties, and the latter probably representing the extent of the fence around the Castle. It also borders Shudy Camps to the north and has a short border with Bartlow to the north-west. The hamlet of Olmstead in the south-eastern corner of the parish was som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caldecote, South Cambridgeshire
Caldecote is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, in the district of South Cambridgeshire, England. It lies south of the A428, approximately six miles west of Cambridge and three miles east of Cambourne. Nearby settlements are Hardwick and Toft to the east, Bourn to the west, Childerley to the north and Kingston to the south. Bourn Airfield lies on the north-west edge of the village. History The older part of the village lies to the south, just off the B1046 road and is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. Its origins have been speculated to have been as a hamlet of neighbouring Bourn, of which it was part of the same parish of in the 12th century. The parish church, St. Michael and All Angels, parts of which date to the 14th century, is in this part of the village. Bourn Brook and the route of the former Oxford and Cambridge Railway run to the south of the village. Highfields Caldecote Highfields Caldecote is a newer development in the north of the village. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Neots
St NeotsPronunciation of the town name: Most commonly, but variations that ''saint'' is said as in most English non-georeferencing speech, the ''t'' is by a small minority of the British pronounced and higher traces of in the final syllable of the town's name are common. is a town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is west of Cambridge. The areas of Eynesbury, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon, Love's Farm and Wintringham form part of the town. The town centre lies on the eastern bank of the River Great Ouse. The town is close to the A1 road (north-south), as well as the A421 and A428 roads which link Cambridge to Bedford and Milton Keynes. St Neots railway station is on the Great Northern route between London and Peterborough. St Neots had a population of 33,410 in 2021. Toponymy The town is named after the ninth century monk Saint Neot, whose bones were brought to St Neots Priory from Cornwall in around 980AD, resulting in pilgr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bury, Cambridgeshire
Bury is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Bury lies approximately north/north east of Huntingdon and is near to Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, Ramsey and St Ives, Huntingdonshire, St Ives. Bury is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic counties of England, historic county of England. History Bury and Hepmangrove, under the name of Bury-cum-Hepmangrove, appear to have originally been separate manors but were united for certain purposes before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538. Known as: * Biri, Byrig (10th century), * Byri (12th century), * Byry (13th century). * Hegmangrave (11th century), * Hecmundegrave (12th century), * Heitmundgrave, * Hetumgrove, Heytmongrave (14th century). The parish lies to the South of Ramsey and is of a very irregular shape, projecting a considerable distance into the fen on the east side of the road from Ramsey to St Ives. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burwell, Cambridgeshire
Burwell is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, some 10 miles (16 km) north-east of Cambridge. It lies on the south-east Fen Edge, edge of the Fens. Westward drainage is improved by Cambridgeshire Lodes, Cambridgeshire lodes (waterways), including Burwell Lode, a growth factor in the village. A population of 6,309 in the 2011 census was put at 6,417 in 2019. History Etymology The name "Burwell", Anglo-Saxon in origin, refers to a fort ''(burh-)'' close to a spring ''(-well)''.British History Online: 'Burwell', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002), pp. 334–341. URLhttp://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18903Retrieved 13 October 2010. The first record of the name dates from 1060. It appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Burewelle, Burwella and Burwelle. There is a spring in the south of the village, close to remains of the 12th-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
