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Chesterton (Cambridge)
Chesterton is a suburb in Cambridge, England. As of the 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 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 government district, governed by an elected local board. Such districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894. Cambridge Borough Council made numerous att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a List of cities in the United Kingdom, city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of the City of Cambridge was 145,700; the population of the wider built-up area (which extends outside the city council area) was 181,137. (2021 census) There is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the Bronze Age, and Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman Britain, Roman and Viking eras. The first Town charter#Municipal charters, town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951. The city is well known as the home of the University of Cambridge, which was founded in 1209 and consistently ranks among the best universities in the world. The buildings of the university include King's College Chap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular and religious administration in most of England and Wales. Civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. Civil parishes in their modern form came into being through the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which established elected parish councils to take on the secular functions of the parish vestry. A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely populated rural area with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, to a large town with a population in excess of 100,000. This scope is similar to that of municipalities in continental Europe, such as the communes of France. However, unlike their continental Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Volkersz
Veronica May Volkersz ( Innes; 1917–2000) was a British aviator and beauty queen. She flew for the RAF's Air Transport Auxiliary in the Second World War and was the first British woman to fly an operational jet fighter when she ferried a Meteor from the Gloster factory to RAF Moreton Valence on 15 September 1945. Early life Veronica May Innes was born in Chesterton, Cambridge, on 17 April 1917. Her father was G. V. d'A. Innes – a professional soldier who rose to the rank of Major. When he served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in India, she spent several summers in the Himalayan city of Srinigar, which she much preferred to her boarding school life in England. In 1934, she participated in a grand pageant at Runnymede which was organised by Gwen Lally to celebrate English democracy, Magna Carta and to raise money for charity. This lasted for eight days and she was the Queen of Beauty on four of those days, taking the role of the Fair Maid of Kent. She was an enthu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Reid
Leonard John Reid (14 January 1888 – 25 October 1938) was an English first-class cricketer. Reid was born at Chesterton in January 1888. He was educated at Aldenham School, before going up to Christ's College, Cambridge. He made his debut in minor counties cricket for Cambridgeshire in the 1906 Minor Counties Championship. He played minor counties for Cambridgeshire until 1914, making fifty appearances in the Minor Counties Championship. Having not played first-class cricket while at Cambridge, Reid later made a single first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) ''against'' Cambridge University at Lord's in 1913. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 6 runs in the MCC first-innings by Geoffrey Davies, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 4 runs by the same bowler. Following the First World War, he switched to playing minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire, making 65 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship between 1920 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Gray (cricketer)
Horace Gray (29 November 1874 – 21 January 1938) was an English first-class cricketer, educator and clergyman. The son of William Wythers Gray, he was born in the Cambridge suburb of Chesterton. He was educated in Cambridge at The Perse School, before going up to Jesus College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against A. J. Webbe's XI at Fenner's in 1894. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge from 1894–96, making eighteen appearances. Playing as a right-arm fast bowler, he took 89 wickets at a bowling average of 22.76, with best figures of 7 for 48. He took a five wicket haul on eight occasions, and once took ten wickets in a match. His most prolific season came in 1895, when he took 37 wickets at an average of 25.02. He gained a blue in cricket while at Cambridge. In addition to playing first-class cricket, Gray also played minor counties cricket for Cambridgeshire from 1895–1906, albeit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge North Railway Station
Cambridge North railway station is a railway station located in northern Cambridge, immediately adjacent to the suburb of Chesterton, Cambridge, Chesterton, close to Cambridge Science Park. The station is on the Fen Line, which runs from Cambridge railway station, Cambridge to King's Lynn railway station, King's Lynn. It connects to the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, and provides an interchange with Park & Ride and local bus services. The station was approved in December 2013; construction commenced in July 2014; and it opened on 21 May 2017, delayed from December 2015. It has three platforms: platform 1 on the eastern side of the station serves southbound fast services to Cambridge, Stansted Airport, and London King's Cross railway station, London King's Cross as well as some morning peak-time services to London Liverpool Street; platform 2 serves northbound services to Ely railway station, Ely, Kings Lynn railway station, King's Lynn and Norwich railway station, Norwich; plat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A14 Road (England)
The A14 is a major trunk road in England, running from the Catthorpe Interchange, a major intersection at the southern end of the M6 motorway, M6 and junction 19 of the M1 motorway, M1 in Leicestershire, to the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk. The road forms part of the unsigned International E-road network, Euroroutes European route E24, E24 and European route E30, E30. It is the busiest shipping lane in East Anglia carrying anything from cars to large amounts of cargo between the UK and Mainland Europe. Route Beginning at the Catthorpe Interchange, the A14 runs through Kettering, Northamptonshire, towards Huntingdon where it now runs parallel to the A1 past Brampton, Cambridgeshire and now bypasses Huntingdon completely due to the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Scheme from 2017 until 2022. It continues past Bar Hill towards Cambridge to meet the end of the M11 and the A428 at the Girton Interchange. The A14 continues easterly over northern Cambridge towards Newmarket where it briefly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A1134 Road
This is a list of A roads in zone 1 in Great Britain beginning north of the River Thames The River Thames ( ), known alternatively in parts as the The Isis, River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, s ..., east of the A1 (roads beginning with 1). Single- and double-digit roads Triple-digit roads Four-digit roads 1000s 1100s 1200s and higher References {{DEFAULTSORT:A Roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain Numbering Scheme 1 1 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A1309 Road
The A1309 is a short road (6.5 miles) which links the two ends of the A10 to north and south of Cambridge city centre in Cambridgeshire, England. It was numbered as part of the A10 prior to the construction of the Cambridge Western Bypass (now M11) and the Northern Bypass (originally A45, now A14). Its northern end is at the '' Milton Interchange'' with the A14 and A10. From here, it passes the Cambridge Science Park, the Cambridge Business Park, and the Cowley Road Park & Ride site, as Milton Road on its way to the ''Mitchams Corner'' gyratory complex just to the north of the city centre. It is unmarked through the city centre, but reappears to the south on the route of the A1134 ring road named '' Trumpington Road'' which then becomes Trumpington High Street. In Trumpington, it has a junction with the A1301 and then passes the Trumpington Park & Ride site before its southern end at junction 11 of the M11 motorway The M11 is a motorway that runs north from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Road, Cambridge
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Addenbrooke's Hospital
Addenbrooke's Hospital is a large teaching hospital and research centre in Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a List of cities in the United Kingdom, city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, north of London. As of the 2021 Unit ..., England, with strong affiliations to the University of Cambridge. Addenbrooke's Hospital is located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. It is run by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is a designated academic health science centre. It is also the East of England's major trauma centre and was the first such centre to be operational in the United Kingdom. History The hospital was founded in 1766 on Trumpington Street with £4,500 from the will of Dr John Addenbrooke (philanthropist), John Addenbrooke, a fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, St Catharine's College. In 1962 the first building was opened on its present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Hedges
King's Hedges is an electoral ward in Cambridge, England. As of the 2021 UK census, the ward had a population of 11,099 people. History Some open land to the north of Cambridge was known as ''Albrach'' from as early as the 13th century. In 1558 it was agreed that Richard Brakyn could inclose all 34 acres of Albrach, following which it was renamed ''Kings Hedges'' (without an apostrophe, which was introduced into English in the sixteenth century in imitation of French practice. ). The name is believed to have been derived from the fact that it is on the site of the ancient King's warren, or game preserve, where hedges were grown to direct the animals into areas where the hunters could easily catch or kill them. Development Development of the King's Hedges estate to the north west of Campkin Road began in 1967, and by 1986 a total of 1570 households had been built on the 125-acre site, largely in blocks of three and four storeys, and reaching the city limits. These council est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
