Complex sentence: Situated directly north of the city of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.
Split into simpler sentences: Situated directly north of the city of Boston, across the Charles River. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.