Cambridge

Geographic position

52.2050° N, 0.1190° E

Event

Fundraising Tour of Great Britain

Sources

"Cambridge." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2014. Web. 02 Apr. 2014. http://www.britannica.com.ezproxy.neu.edu/EBchecked/topic/90641/Cambridge. http://www.visitcambridge.org/information/media. Geo coordinates from https://www.google.com/#q=geographic+coordinates+for+cambridge.

General note

Cambridge is a town located in southeastern England about 60 miles north of London in the county of Cambridgeshire. When the Iron Age Belgic tribe built the first settlement in the area in the first century BCE, Cambridge was the site of dense forests and marshes on the River Cam (at the time known as the River Granta). In 40 CE, the Romans first acquired the territory on which Cambridge would be built, followed later by the Saxons and the Normans. Cambridge’s roots as an intellectual center and university town date back to the Middle Ages. In 1209, scholars began arriving in Oxford, and 75 years later Hugh de Balsham, the Bishop of Ely, founded the first college in Cambridge. Five more colleges were established in the 13th century and ten more in the 15th and 16th centuries.