Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: The counties around Cambridgeshire are Lincolnshire to the north , Norfolk to the northeast , Suffolk to the east , Essex and Hertfordshire to the south , and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west .
Simplified: is a county in England , bordering Lincolnshire to the north , Norfolk to the northeast , Suffolk to the east , Essex and Hertfordshire to the south , and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west .