Cambridge

**Cambridge** (<templatestyles src="IPA/styles.css"/>/ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ<templatestyles src="IPA/styles.css"/>/

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The University of Cambridge was founded in 1209. The buildings of the university include King's College Chapel, Cavendish Laboratory, and the Cambridge University Library, one of the largest legal deposit libraries in the world. The city's skyline is dominated by several college buildings, along with the spire of the Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church, and the chimney of Addenbrooke's Hospital. Anglia Ruskin University, which evolved from the Cambridge School of Art and the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, also has its main campus in the city.

Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology Silicon Fen with industries such as software and bioscience and many start-up companies born out of the university. Over 40 per cent of the workforce have a higher education qualification, more than twice the national average. The Cambridge Biomedical Campus, one of the largest biomedical research clusters in the world, is soon to house premises of AstraZeneca, a hotel, and the relocated Royal Papworth Hospital.

The first game of association football took place at Parker's Piece. The Strawberry Fair music and arts festival and Midsummer Fair are held on Midsummer Common, and the annual Cambridge Beer Festival takes place on Jesus Green. The city is adjacent to the M11 and A14 roads. Cambridge station is less than an hour from London King's Cross railway station.

## References

1. ↑ Cambridge. Collins Dictionary (n.d.).
2. ↑  Template:NOMIS2011
Cairns, Richard. "What it takes to make it to Oxbridge", 1 October 2011.
"Papworth heart and lung specialist hospital to move", *BBC News*, 3 December 2013.

## Further reading

*See also: Bibliography of the history of Cambridge*
* <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Bowes, Robert (1894), *A catalogue of books printed at or relating to the University, town & county of Cambridge, from 1521 to 1893*, Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes, OCLC 1064186, OL 23284674M
* Rawle, Tim (author and photographer), John Adamson (editor). *Cambridge* (new ed. with foreword by William Bortrick). Cambridge: The Oxbridge Portfolio (2016), 204 pp. ISBN: 978-0-9572867-2-6

## External links

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* Cambridge City Council
* The Cambridge Market Place Webcam
* Cambridgeshire Association for Local History
* Cambridgeshire Community Archives
* The official tourism website for Cambridge

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