Cambridge, England
1895 - Cambridge

Cambridge, or Cambridgeshire, kāme'brij-shir, an inland county of England, in its E. part, having N. Lincolnshire, E. Norfolk and Suffolk, S. Essex and Herts, W. Bedford, Huntingdon, and Northamptonshire. Area, 822 square miles. Surface, except on the S., marshy and flat, but very generally drained by canals and steam-pumps. Chief rivers, the Ouse, Cam, Nene, and Larke, most of them flowing principally in recent artificial channels. The county is a # agricultural region. Chief towns, Cambridge, the capital, Newmarket, Wisbeach, and the city of Ely. It sends (exclusive of its boroughs) three members to the House of Commons. Pop, in 1871, 186,906; in 1881, 185,706; in 1891, 188,862.

Cambridge, kāme'brij (anc. Gran'ta; L. Cantabri'gia), a town of England, capital of the above county, and the seat of one of the great English universities, situated on both sides of the Cam, at the junction of several railways, 49 miles N.N.E. of London. The town, in an extensive flat, embosomed among lofty trees, has, with few exceptions only, narrow, winding, and irregularly built streets; but its colleges are noble edifices. Principal buildings connected with the town, St. Mary's and Trinity churches, St. Sepulchre's, St. Clement's, St. Edward's, St. Benedict's; a gram: mar-school, founded in 1516; a national school, with 600 pupils; numerous almshouses; a general hospital; theatre in the suburb of Barnwell; the shire hall, town hall, and jail, enclosing remains of the ancient castle; a union work house, and a house of correction and industry, founded in 1628 by Hobson, the eccentric carrier. Cambridge has flour-mills, breweries, rope- and twine-yards, brick and tile-works, carries on trade by the river with Lynn, chiefly in timber, and is a depot for corn, butter, and rape oil, forwarded by land to the London markets. It is divided into 5 wards, is governed by a mayor, aldermen, and councillors, and is the seat of county assizes and quarter and betty sessions. Cambridge (independent of its university) sends two members to the House of Commons...

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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