The country about Cambridge is flat and not particularly spectacular in its scenery, though it offers easy going to the foot traveler.

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

The Barker index is published for the Barker Index Committee by W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 4 Petty Cury, Cambridge, England.

One of the more noteworthy changes that have taken place since the mid-19th century is the situation of Catholics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Dr. Gillian Tett, a Cambridge University trained anthropologist who went on to become a senior editor at the Financial Times is one of the leaders in this use of anthropology.

Catalogued as Cambridge Manuscript 286, it has been positively dated to 6th century Italy and this bound book, the St Augustine Gospels, is still used during the swearing-in ceremony of new archbishops of Canterbury.

BCPL ( Basic Combined Programming Language ) is a procedural, imperative, and structured computer programming language designed by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1966.

His most famous book in this area is The Skeptical Environmentalist, whose English translation was published as a work in environmental economics by Cambridge University Press in 2001.

Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Cambridge is one of the two county seats of Middlesex County ( Lowell is the other ).

A resident of Cambridge is known as a Cantabrigian.

There is none on public display in Cambridge, but there is a large collection in the Toledo Museum of Art.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Cambridge has a total area of, of which of it is land and of it ( 9. 82 %) is water.

Cambridge is located in eastern Massachusetts, bordered by:

Also, the " Cambridge Center " office complex is located here, and not at the actual center of Cambridge.

This is the primary site of Harvard University, and is a major Cambridge shopping area.

A short distance away from the square lies the Cambridge Common, while the neighborhood north of Harvard and east of Massachusetts Avenue is known as Agassiz in honor of the famed scientist Louis Agassiz.

* East Cambridge ( Area 1 ) is bordered on the north by the Somerville border, on the east by the Charles River, on the south by Broadway and Main Street, and on the west by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks.

His early poems and some of his prose prolusions speak of wanderings in the city and the neighboring country that may be extended to Cambridge and its surrounding countryside.

The town included a much larger area than the present city, with various outlying parts becoming independent towns over the years: Newton ( originally Cambridge Village, then Newtown ) in 1688, Lexington ( Cambridge Farms ) in 1712, and both West Cambridge ( originally Menotomy ) and Brighton ( Little Cambridge ) in 1807.

In 1629, Winthrop had led the signing of the founding document of the city of Boston, which was known as the Cambridge Agreement, after the university.

Cambridge was incorporated as a city in 1846.

Between 1850 and 1900, Cambridge took on much of its present character — streetcar suburban development along the turnpikes, with working-class and industrial neighborhoods focused on East Cambridge, comfortable middle-class housing being built on old estates in Cambridgeport and Mid-Cambridge, and upper-class enclaves near Harvard University and on the minor hills of the city.

The coming of the railroad to North Cambridge and Northwest Cambridge then led to three major changes in the city: the development of massive brickyards and brickworks between Massachusetts Ave., Concord Ave. and Alewife Brook ; the ice-cutting industry launched by Frederic Tudor on Fresh Pond ; and the carving up of the last estates into residential subdivisions to provide housing to the thousands of immigrants that arrived to work in the new industries.

The border between Cambridge and the neighboring city of Somerville passes through densely populated neighborhoods which are connected by the MBTA Red Line.

Public parkland includes the esplanade along the Charles River, which mirrors its Boston counterpart, Cambridge Common, a busy and historic public park immediately adjacent to the Harvard campus, and the Alewife Brook Reservation and Fresh Pond in the western part of the city.

The population density was 16, 422. 08 people per square mile ( 6, 341. 98 / km² ), making Cambridge the fifth most densely populated city in the US and the second most densely populated city in Massachusetts behind neighboring Somerville.

Locals living in and near the city jokingly refer to it as " The People's Republic of Cambridge.

* Cambridge, Massachusetts, a city in the United States

* Cambridge, Ontario, a city in Canada

At some point in almost every show, usually when giving the address for the Puzzler answers, Ray will mention Cambridge, Massachusetts ( where the show originates ), at which point Tom reverently interjects with a tone of civic pride, " Our fair city.

MIT's campus spans approximately a mile of the north side of the Charles River basin in the city of Cambridge.

Newfoundland English is also used frequently in the city of Cambridge ON.

For example, Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts appear to the casual traveler as one large city, while locally they each are quite culturally different and occupy different counties.

This was the highest of any major US city, but bested by college towns such as nearby Cambridge.

Included within the MBTA system are four of the few remaining trolleybus lines in the U. S. ( 71, 72, 73 and 77A ), although these principally operate in the adjoining city of Cambridge.

Soon after, turnpikes were built: the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike ( today's Broadway and Concord Ave .), the Middlesex Turnpike ( Hampshire St. and Massachusetts Ave. northwest of Porter Square ), and what are today's Cambridge, Main, and Harvard Streets were roads to connect various areas of Cambridge to the bridges.

Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading.

Immediately prior to its abolition, the government of Middlesex County consisted of three County Commissioners elected at-large to staggered four-year terms, a County Treasurer elected to a six-year term, a County Sheriff elected to a six-year term and two Registers of Deeds, one for the Northern District at Lowell and the other for the Southern District at Cambridge, both elected to six-year terms.

Middlesex County owned and operated the Superior Courthouses in Cambridge and Lowell and the Middlesex County Hospital in Waltham.

The first Middlesex County Registry of Deeds was created in 1649 in Cambridge.

The remaining 44 cities and towns of Middlesex County are in the Southern District which remained in Cambridge.

Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County.

He was educated at Stanburn Primary School in Stanmore, Middlesex, and Harrow County School for Boys and then won a scholarship to Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he came under the influence of Maurice Cowling.

The Duke of Cambridge served as colonel-in-chief of the 17th Lancers, Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers ; the The Middlesex Regiment ( Duke of Cambridge's Own ) and King's Royal Rifle Corps ; colonel of the Grenadier Guards ; honorary colonel of the 10th ( Duke of Cambridge ’ s Own ) Bengal Lancers, 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Punjabis, 4 Battalion Suffolk Regiment, 1st City of London Volunteer Brigade and the Scots Fusilier Guards.

In 1709 he was ordained Priest at Fulham and on August 10, 1709 he was appointed ' Perpetual Curate ' of the parish of Teddington, Middlesex and left Cambridge, although he retained his Fellowship until 1718.

* Elmwood ( Cambridge, Massachusetts ), listed on the NRHP in Middlesex County

Three other debutants that day who all became England players were Close and opening batsman Frank Lowson for Yorkshire ; and Middlesex fast bowler John Warr for Cambridge.

Educated at Harrow School in Middlesex, he went on to gain a Master of Arts degree from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1856.

Michael is also a regular speaker to the university circuit including the likes of Oxford, Cambridge, Keele University, Sussex and Middlesex.

* Gregor MacGregor, England, Scotland, Cambridge University, Middlesex cricketer and rugby player.

John served in the Province of Massachusetts Bay as a justice of the peace ( 1699 ), a judge in the Court of Admiralty ( 1705 ), a justice of the Superior Court ( 1702 – 1708 ), judge of Probate Court for Middlesex County in Cambridge ( 1702 – 1708 ), legislator ( 1696 – 1702 ) and Speaker of the Colonial Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1700 – 1702 ), and provincial concillor for eastern Maine ( 1706 – 1708 ).

One of these roads was the Middlesex Turnpike, the present-day Hampshire Street, which connected Cambridge with Lowell and Boston, bringing regional traffic through the area.

John Michael Brearley OBE ( born 28 April 1942 ) is a retired English first-class cricketer who captained Cambridge University, Middlesex, and England in 31 of his 39 Test matches, winning 17 and losing only 4.

In addition to the PhD he earned at King's College, he has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of: Cambridge ; Glasgow ; Haifa ; Middlesex ; Yeshiva University ; Liverpool and St. Andrews, University of Roehampton and is an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius and King's College London.