Inclosure Acts of 1801 and 1807 enabled expansion of the town over surrounding open fields and eventually in 1912 and again in 1935 the boundaries were extended to include areas such as Chesterton, Cherry Hinton, Fen Ditton, Trumpington, and Grantchester.
Leta 1643 je nadzor nad mestom prevzel parlamenta, oziroma Oliver Cromwell, ki je bil izobražen na Univerzi v "Sidney Sussex College".