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Cambridgeshire
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Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
( or ; abbreviated
Cambs.
) is an
East Anglian
county
in
England
, bordering
Lincolnshire
to the north,
Norfolk
to the north-east,
Suffolk
to the east,
Essex
and
Hertfordshire
to the south, and
Bedfordshire
and
Northamptonshire
to the west. The city of
Cambridge
is the
county town
. Modern Cambridgeshire was formed in 1974 as an amalgamation of the counties of
Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
and
Huntingdon and Peterborough
, which had been created in 1965 from the historic counties of Cambridgeshire,
Huntingdonshire
, the
Isle of Ely
and the
Soke of Peterborough
. It contains most of the region known as
Silicon Fen
.
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