Cambridge is a town in England, the UK, located 80km north of London.It is known for its world class university, the oldest in England after that of Oxford. It is also the administrative center of the county of Cambridgeshire. Since 1951, Cambridge has the official city status.
In 2001, the city population was estimated at nearly 109 000 inhabitants, of which just over 22,000 students (including 17,000students at the University of Cambridge). Today, 31 colleges are managed separately and independently, providing accommodation and educational monitoring students while the university is responsible for education.
The Cambridge area is now known as Silicon Fen, due to the growth of high technology industries and incubators that have developed in the science park. The University was joined by most of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU),and its reputation in education has led to other entities (such as the Open University of East Anglia) to come to rely on city.
A study by the firm consultants CACI in 2004 concludes that a district of downtown Cambridge would be "the capital of smokers"in the UK. Indeed, the inhabitants of this district seem to spend more money on cigarettes than other parts of the country, with over two thousand pounds a year. This area is one of several colleges of the university, such as Clare, King's and Trinity.
March 5, 2004, city status was awarded Fairtrade in Cambridge.
And of course Cambridge is no mere repository of history and charm, it is very much a living city; its narrow streets are alive with the click and whirr of cyclists. The river is clogged with red-faced rowers, drifting punts and on occasion floundering freshmen. And a new generation of designer boutiques, coffee houses and slick nightlife venues is finding its niche in among the intriguing passageways and medieval doorways of the old town.
While you’ll find all these qualities and more in ‘the other place’ (as rival Oxford is referred to here), Cambridge is the more concentrated of England's two great university cities and in our humble opinion, far the prettier.
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In 2001, the city population was estimated at nearly 109 000 inhabitants, of which just over 22,000 students (including 17,000students at the University of Cambridge). Today, 31 colleges are managed separately and independently, providing accommodation and educational monitoring students while the university is responsible for education.
The Cambridge area is now known as Silicon Fen, due to the growth of high technology industries and incubators that have developed in the science park. The University was joined by most of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU),and its reputation in education has led to other entities (such as the Open University of East Anglia) to come to rely on city.
A study by the firm consultants CACI in 2004 concludes that a district of downtown Cambridge would be "the capital of smokers"in the UK. Indeed, the inhabitants of this district seem to spend more money on cigarettes than other parts of the country, with over two thousand pounds a year. This area is one of several colleges of the university, such as Clare, King's and Trinity.
March 5, 2004, city status was awarded Fairtrade in Cambridge.
And of course Cambridge is no mere repository of history and charm, it is very much a living city; its narrow streets are alive with the click and whirr of cyclists. The river is clogged with red-faced rowers, drifting punts and on occasion floundering freshmen. And a new generation of designer boutiques, coffee houses and slick nightlife venues is finding its niche in among the intriguing passageways and medieval doorways of the old town.
While you’ll find all these qualities and more in ‘the other place’ (as rival Oxford is referred to here), Cambridge is the more concentrated of England's two great university cities and in our humble opinion, far the prettier.
This page, and all contents of this Web site are Copyright © 2009-2012 by Best Trip Destination.All rights reserved.
