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South Cambridgeshire

South Cambridgeshire is a mostly rural local government district

Non-metropolitan district

Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially 'shire districts', are a type of Districts of England in England. As originally created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan county in a so-called "two-tier" arrangement....
of Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a Counties_of_the_United_Kingdom#England in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex, England and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west....
, England

England

Chesterton Rural District

Chesterton was a rural district in Cambridgeshire, England from 1894 to 1974.It was formed in 1894 as a successor to the Chesterton, Cambridgeshire rural sanitary district....
and South Cambridgeshire Rural District

South Cambridgeshire Rural District

South Cambridgeshire was a rural district in Cambridgeshire, England from 1934 to 1974.It was formed in 1934 under a Local Government Act 1929....
. It surrounds the city of Cambridge

Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
, which is administered separately from the district. After the abolition of South Herefordshire

South Herefordshire

South Herefordshire was one of nine Districts of England of the England county of Hereford and Worcester from 1974 to 1988.South Herefordshire District was formed on 1 April 1974 as part of a general reorganisation of local administration in England and Wales under the Local Government Act 1972....
and Hereford

Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city City status in the United Kingdom, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, southwest of Worcester, and northwest of Gloucester....
districts to form the unitary Herefordshire

Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a Historic counties of England and Ceremonial counties of England Counties of England in the West Midlands Regions of England of England....
in 1998, it is the only English district to completely encircle another.

The district's coat of arms

Coat of arms

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contains a reference to the coat of arms of Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

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South Cambridgeshire is a mostly rural local government district

Non-metropolitan district

Cambridgeshire

England

Chesterton Rural District

South Cambridgeshire Rural District

South Cambridgeshire was a rural district in Cambridgeshire, England from 1934 to 1974.It was formed in 1934 under a Local Government Act 1929....
. It surrounds the city of Cambridge

Cambridge

South Herefordshire

Hereford

Herefordshire

Coat of arms

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
. The motto, "Niet Zonder Arbyt", means "Nothing without work" in old Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
; it was originally the motto of Cornelius Vermuyden

Cornelius Vermuyden

Sir Cornelius Vermuyden was a Dutch engineer who introduced Dutch reclamation methods to Britain, and made the first important attempts to drain The Fens of East Anglia....
who drained The Fens

The Fens

The Fens, also known as the Fenland, is a geographic area in eastern England, in the United Kingdom.The Fenland primarily lies around the coast of the Wash; it reaches into two Government regions , four ceremonial counties , 11 District Councils and five postcode areas ....
in the 17th century. The district council's headquarters moved from Cambridge to Cambourne in 2004.

South Cambridgeshire has scored highly on the best places to live, according to Channel 4, which ranked South Cambs as the 5th best place to live in 2006

List of settlements

Abington Piggotts - Arrington

Arrington

Arrington is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 389 at the time of 2001 census....
- Babraham

Babraham

Babraham is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about six miles south-east of Cambridge on the A1307 road....
- Balsham

Balsham

Balsham is a rural village and civil parish in the county of Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom which has much expanded since the 1960s and is now one of several bedroom community of Cambridge....
- Bar Hill

Bar Hill

Bar Hill is a purpose-built village with a population of 4,000 about 4 miles northwest of Cambridge, England on the A14 road .Planning for the village began in the late 1950s to alleviate the housing shortage in South Cambridgeshire, and the first residents arrived in 1967....
- Barrington

Barrington, Cambridgeshire

Barrington is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 904....
- Bartlow

Bartlow

Bartlow is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about south-east of Cambridge and seven miles west of Haverhill, Suffolk in Suffolk....
- Barton

Barton, Cambridgeshire

Barton is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is about four miles south-west of Cambridge, near junction 12 of the M11 motorway....
- Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth

Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth

Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth is a civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. Since the 1960s the parish contains the village of Bassingbourn and hamlet of Kneesworth and is situated just north of Royston, Hertfordshire in Hertfordshire....
- Bourn - Boxworth

Boxworth

Boxworth is a village in Cambridgeshire not far from the rapidly-expanding developments of Cambourne, Cambridgeshire and Bar Hill. It is situated about 8 miles to the north-west of Cambridge....
- Caldecote

Caldecote, Cambridgeshire

Caldecote is a village in Cambridgeshire, in the district of South Cambridgeshire. It is located south of the A428 road, approximately six miles west of Cambridge and three miles east of Cambourne....
- Cambourne - Carlton

Carlton, Cambridgeshire

Carlton is a village near the eastern boundary of the County#United Kingdom of Cambridgeshire in the east of England. It is in the District#England of South Cambridgeshire....
- Castle Camps

Castle Camps

Castle Camps was a Normans located in what is now the civil parish of Castle Camps , Cambridgeshire....
- Caxton

Caxton, Cambridgeshire

Caxton is a small rural village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire, England. It is 9 miles west of the county town of Cambridge....
- Childerley

Childerley

Childerley, also known as Great Childerley and Little Childerly, were two small rural villages in the East of England and the county of Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom....
- Chishills - Chittering

Chittering, Cambridgeshire

Chittering is a hamlet about 8 miles north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England. For administrative purposes it is part of the parish of Waterbeach....
- Comberton

Comberton

Comberton is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England....
- Connington - Coton

Coton, Cambridgeshire

Coton is a small village and civil parish three miles west-by-north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England. It belongs to the administrative district of South Cambridgeshire....
- Cottenham

Cottenham

Cottenham is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. It is close to The Fens. Before the fens were drained in the 19th century Cottenham was on the last contour before the water logged marshes, with Ely being the nearest dry land to the north ....
- Croxton

Croxton, Cambridgeshire

Croxton is a village and civil parish about 13 miles west of Cambridge in South Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire, England. In 2001, the resident population was 163 people....
- Croydon

Croydon, Cambridgeshire

Croydon is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire, England. It is south-west of Cambridge and immediately west of the A1198 road ....
- Dry Drayton

Dry Drayton

Dry Drayton is a village about 5 miles northwest of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England. It covers an area of .The village has a pub , an Anglican church , a Methodism church, a primary school , and a cricket field....
- Duxford

Duxford

Duxford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, some ten miles south of Cambridge. Duxford gives its name to RAF Duxford, a former Royal Air Force airfield that was used as a sector station during the Battle of Britain....
- Elsworth - Eltisley

Eltisley

Eltisley is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire, England, on the A428 road about 5.5 miles east of St Neots and about 11 miles west of the city of Cambridge....
- Fen Ditton

Fen Ditton

Fen Ditton is a village on the northeast edge of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England. The parish covers an area of Fen Ditton lies on the east bank of the River Cam, on the road from Cambridge to Clayhithe, and close to junction 34 of the A14 road ....
- Fen Drayton

Fen Drayton

Fen Drayton is a small village between Cambridge and St Ives, Cambridgeshire in Cambridgeshire, England, and between the villages of Fenstanton and Swavesey....
- Fowlmere

Fowlmere

Fowlmere is one of the southernmost villages in Cambridgeshire, England. It is very close to the Imperial War Museum Duxford, and 9 miles southwest of the city of Cambridge....
- Foxton

Foxton, Cambridgeshire

Foxton, a small village in South Cambridgeshire, England, is celebrated in Rowland Parker's classic of local history The Common Stream . It has a number of perfectly preserved fifteenth and sixteenth century houses, and a thirteenth century church dedicated to St Laurence....
- Fulbourn

Fulbourn

Fulbourn is a village in Cambridgeshire, England....
- Gamlingay

Gamlingay

Gamlingay is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire, England, near the border with Bedfordshire. It is 14 miles from Cambridge and the population in 2001 was 3,535 people....
- Girton

Girton, Cambridgeshire

Girton is a village of about 1600 households, and 4500 people in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about two miles to the northwest of Cambridge, and is the home of University of Cambridge's Girton College, Cambridge, which was moved there from a previous site in Hertfordshire in 1872....
- Grantchester

Grantchester

Grantchester is a village on the River Cam or Granta in Cambridgeshire, in England in the United Kingdom. It is listed in the Domesday Book as Grantesete and Grauntsethe....
- Graveley - Great Abington - Great Eversden

Great Eversden

Great Eversden is a village south-west of Cambridgeshire, England. The village is separated from Little Eversden by the Greenwich Meridian.Great Eversden is a small village of about 85 houses....
- Great Shelford

Great Shelford

Great Shelford is a village located approximately four miles to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England. In 1850 Great Shelford parish contained intersected by the river Cam....
- Great Wilbraham

Great Wilbraham

Great Wilbraham is a small village situated in a rural area some seven miles to the east of Cambridge, between the edge of an area of low-lying drained fens to the west and north, and higher ground beyond the A11 road to the east....
- Guilden Morden

Guilden Morden

Guilden Morden, England, is a village and parish located in Cambridgeshire about west of Royston, Hertfordshire in Hertfordshire. It is served by the main line Ashwell and Morden railway station which is actually away in the hamlet of Odsey....
- Hardwick

Hardwick, Cambridgeshire

Hardwick is a village in the county of Cambridgeshire, located approximately 6 miles west of the city of Cambridge and immediately south of the A428 road Cambridge-St Neots road....
- Harlton

Harlton

Harlton is a village and civil parish in the East of England region and the county Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. The area of the village is ....
- Harston

Harston

Harston is a village to the south of Cambridge, England....
- Haslingfield

Haslingfield

Haslingfield is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The village is about six miles south-west of Cambridge, between Harston, Barton and Barrington....
- Hatley

Hatley, Cambridgeshire

Hatley is a civil parish in South Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire, England. It lies between the villages of Gamlingay and Croydon, Cambridgeshire, 12 miles south-west of the city of Cambridge and eight miles south-east of the town of St Neots....
- Hauxton

Hauxton

Hauxton is a small village in Cambridgeshire, England to the south of Cambridge. It has a population of 687 . It used to have a post office, a pub and other important local amenities, it now boasts a gym and a church....
- Heydon

Heydon, Cambridgeshire

Heydon is a village in the East of England region and the county Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. The area of the village is ....
- Hildersham - Hinxton

Hinxton

Hinxton is a village in South Cambridgeshire, England. It is the home to the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, which includes the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book....
- Histon

Histon

Histon and Impington are villages in Cambridgeshire, England, They are situated just north of Cambridge with the main bulk of the settlements being separated from the city by the A14 road ....
- Horseheath

Horseheath

Horseheath is a hamlet in Cambridgeshire, England, situated a few miles south-east of Cambridge, between Linton, Cambridgeshire and Haverhill, Suffolk, on the A1307 road....
- Horningsea

Horningsea

Horningsea is a small village north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire in England. The parish covers an area of 6.63 km?.Horningsea lies on the east bank of the River Cam, and on the road from Cambridge to Clayhithe....
- Ickleton

Ickleton

Ickleton is a village on the Cambridgeshire–Essex border in England. It grew at the point where the ancient Icknield Way crossed the River Cam, so it is likely that some form of habitation has existed on the site since prehistoric times....
- Impington - Kingston

Kingston, Cambridgeshire

Kingston is a village in the East of England region and the county Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. As of the 2001 census the population is 214. The area of the village is ....
- Knapwell

Knapwell

Knapwell is a small village in Cambridgeshire situated about west of Cambridge. It is within the diocese of Ely. Its population was estimated at 110 in 2001....
- Landbeach

Landbeach

Landbeach is a small fen-edge England village about five miles north of Cambridge. The parish covers an area of 9.00 km?.Landbeach has two church es , a village hall and an Indian restaurant ....
- Linton

Linton, Cambridgeshire

Linton is a village in rural Cambridgeshire much expanded since the 1960s and now one of several dormitory villages of Cambridge. The former railway station was on the Stour Valley Railway between Cambridge and Colchester, now closed....
- Litlington

Litlington, Cambridgeshire

Litlington is a village and civil parish in the East of England region and the county Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. The area of the village is ....
- Little Abington - Little Eversden

Little Eversden

Little Eversden is a village approximately south-west of Cambridge, England.It has two main roads: Harlton Road which goes through Little Eversden and joins the A603 road, and High Street, which is a dead end....
- Little Gransden

Little Gransden

Little Gransden is a civil parish and village in South Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire, England. In 2001 the population was 262 people. It is 11 miles from Cambridge, on the border with the district of Huntingdonshire....
- Little Shelford

Little Shelford

Little Shelford is a village located to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England. The River Granta lies between it and the larger village of Great Shelford, and both are served by Shelford railway station, which is on the line from Cambridge to London Liverpool Street....
- Little Wilbraham

Little Wilbraham

Little Wilbraham is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, southeast of Cambridge between the A1303 road and the A11 road . It is in the district of South Cambridgeshire....
- Lolworth

Lolworth

Lolworth is a civil parish in the district of South Cambridgeshire, England, located approximately northwest of Cambridge city centre. It can be found by travelling northbound along the A14 road from Cambridge towards Huntingdon....
- Longstanton

Longstanton

Longstanton is a village in South Cambridgeshire, England, northwest of Cambridge city centre....
- Longstowe

Longstowe

Longstowe is a civil parish and small rural village of nearly 200 residents in South Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire, England, west of Cambridge....
- Madingley

Madingley

Madingley is a village near Coton, Cambridgeshire and Dry Drayton on the western outskirts of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The village's former public house, The Three Horseshoes, is now a good-quality restaurant though it still has a bar that serves beer....
- Melbourn

Melbourn

Melbourn is a large village in the far south west of Cambridgeshire, England. It is located next to the A10 just north of Royston. Melbourn has over 4400 inhabitants....
- Meldreth

Meldreth

Meldreth is a village in South Cambridgeshire with about 1,600 inhabitants.The village, once famous for its fruit production, is now home to many commuters who work in Cambridge and London....
- Milton

Milton, Cambridgeshire

Milton is a village just north of Cambridge separated from the city by the A14 road . It has a population of approximately 4,300 with 3,200 being on the electoral register....
- Newton

Newton, Cambridgeshire

Newton is a civil parish and small village in Cambridgeshire, England....
- Oakington

Oakington

Oakington is a small village north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire in England, and belongs to the administrative district of South Cambridgeshire....
- Orwell

Orwell, Cambridgeshire

Orwell is a small rural village outside Cambridge in South Cambridgeshire, England. Orwell is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Ordeuuella, meaning "spring by a pointed hill"....
- Over

Over, Cambridgeshire

Over is a large village near the River Great Ouse in the England county of Cambridgeshire.There is a strong community in Over which has been built on the work and dedication of people who care about the community, indeed, everyday someone in Over puts a little back into the community and adds to the whole equation....
- Pampisford

Pampisford

Pampisford is a village, south of Cambridge, on the A505 road near Sawston, Cambridgeshire.Here there was once a great ditch, dug to close the gap between forest and marsh....
- Papworth Everard

Papworth Everard

Papworth Everard is the name of a village in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies ten miles west of Cambridge and six miles south of Huntingdon, having along its centre Ermine Street, the old A1 road , the Roman road highway that for centuries served as a major artery from London to York, which is now the A1198 road....
- Papworth St Agnes - Rampton

Rampton, Cambridgeshire

Rampton is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. It is quite small but has a thriving community. The village Church is one of a very few English churches with a thatched roof....
- Sawston

Sawston

Sawston is a large village in Cambridgeshire in England, situated on the River Cam seven miles south of Cambridge. It is the largest village in the county with a population of 7,150 ....
- Shepreth

Shepreth

Shepreth is a small village in South Cambridgeshire. Shepreth railway station is on the East Coast Main Line, the main line between Cambridge and London....
- Shingay cum Wendy

Shingay cum Wendy

Shingay cum Wendy is a civil parish in the England county of Cambridgeshire.Forming part of the district of South Cambridgeshire's Bassingbourn Ward the parish's main settlements are Shingay and Wendy, Cambridgeshire....
- Shudy Camps

Shudy Camps

Shudy Camps is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. As of the 2001 census the population is 310. The area of the village is ....
- Six Mile Bottom

Six Mile Bottom

Six Mile Bottom is a hamlet within the parish of Little Wilbraham, near Cambridge in England.The hamlet was built in the 19th century, and is named for its distance from the start of Newmarket Racecourse....
- Stapleford

Stapleford, Cambridgeshire

Stapleford is a village located approximately four miles to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England. Stapleford is first mentioned in 956 when it was given the Latinised name of Stapelforda, formerly Stapleton....
- Steeple Morden

Steeple Morden

Steeple Morden is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, and is part of the South Cambridgeshire local government non-metropolitan district....
- Stow-cum-Quy - Swavesey

Swavesey

Swavesey is a small village lying on the Greenwich Meridian in Cambridgeshire, England, with an approximate population of 2,480....
- Tadlow

Tadlow

Tadlow is a civil parish and village in South Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire, England on the River Cam . It is south-west of Cambridge and north-east of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire....
- Teversham

Teversham

Teversham is a very small village in Cambridgeshirelocated roughly from Fulbourn, and is roughly from Cambridge. It is a small village compared to neighbouring ones....
/Cherry Hinton

Cherry Hinton

Cherry Hinton is a suburban area of the city of Cambridge, in Cambridgeshire, England. It is around southeast of Cambridge city centre....
- Thriplow

Thriplow

Thriplow is a quiet village situated south of Cambridge, England.Each year it celebrates 'Daffodil Weekend'.The tradition started in 1969 in an attempt to raise money for repairing the church and the village has been opened every year since ....
& Heathfield - Toft

Toft, Cambridgeshire

Toft is a village situated in Cambridgeshire, England. It is approximately six miles to the west of Cambridge, and is situated within four miles of the M11 motorway....
- Waterbeach

Waterbeach

Waterbeach is a large fen-edge village located 6 miles north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire in England, and belongs to the administrative district of South Cambridgeshire....
- West Wickham - West Wratting - Weston Colville - Westwick

Westwick, Cambridgeshire

Westwick is a hamlet in Cambridgeshire, in England. It is situated to the north-west of Cambridge, and is part of the parish of Oakington and Westwick....
- Whaddon - Whittlesford

Whittlesford

Whittlesford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, and also an old Hundred ....
- Willingham

Willingham, Cambridgeshire

Willingham is a medium to large village in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the edge of The Fens. Driving north from the village one may observe the characteristic elevated straight roads and black soil....
- Wimpole

Wimpole

Wimpole is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, about 8½ miles southwest of Cambridge. It is sometimes sub-divided into "Old Wimpole" and "New Wimpole"....