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South Cambridgeshire

district, England, United Kingdom

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South Cambridgeshire, district, administrative county of Cambridgeshire, east-central England. The district lies almost entirely within the historic county of Cambridgeshire, except for the area around Great Chishill, which belongs to the historic county of Essex. It encircles the administratively independent city of Cambridge, which is the district seat. South Cambridgeshire lies generally within the drainage basins of the Cam and Granta rivers and is an area of low, rolling terrain that extends into the Fens, an extensive region of reclaimed marshland northeast of Cambridge. The villages and small towns of the district base their economic livelihood on the cultivation of ...(100 of 155 words)

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