East Cambridgeshire

East Cambridgeshire

East Cambridgeshire (Locally known as East Cambs or East Cambs District Council) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Its council is based in Ely.

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 with the merger of Ely urban district, Ely Rural District and Newmarket Rural District.

According to a report by the Halifax bank in 2004, East Cambridgeshire has the fastest population growth rate of any British local authority other than the City of London. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4122731.stm]

Archaeology

The recent "Fenland survey "of archaeological finds mentions an enumeration of findings made between 1884 and 1994 in the region to the north of Devil's Dyke and Cambridge, from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age (the region south of Devil's Dyke is not yet included in the survey). By far the greatest quantities of bronze objects found in England were discovered in East Cambridgeshire.

The most important Bronze Age finds were discovered in Isleham (more than 6500 pieces), Stuntney, Soham, Wicken, Chippenham, Coveney, Mepal and Wilburton. These findings include swords, spear-heads, arrows, axes, palstaves, knives, daggers, rapiers, armour, decorative equipment (in particular for horses) and many fragments of sheet bronze. The greater part of these objects have been entrusted to the Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds while other items are in the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. Other finds include traces of cremations and barrows, golden torques, an extensive ditch system and a wooden track-way between Fordey Farm (Barway) and Little Thetford. [cite book|title= Fenland survey : an essay in landscape and persistence / David Hall and John Coles |first=David|last=Hall|origdate=1994|publisher=London;English Heritage|id=ISBN 1-85074-477-7, p. 81-88 ] Bronze razors have also been found and it is well known that Celts shaved their cheeks [cite book|title= Fenland survey : an essay in landscape and persistence / David Hall and John Coles |first=David|last=Hall|origdate=1994|publisher=London;English Heritage|id=ISBN 1-85074-477-7, p. 4] .

Towns and villages in East Cambridgeshire

*Aldreth
*Ashley
*Barway
*Bottisham
*Brinkley
*Burwell
*Chettisham
*Cheveley
*Chippenham
*Coveney
*Dullingham
*Ely (City)
*Fordham
*Haddenham
*Isleham
*Little Downham
*Little Thetford
*Littleport
*Lode
*Longmeadow
*Mepal
*Prickwillow
*Pymoor
*Queen Adelaide
*Reach
*Soham (Town)
*Stetchworth
*Stretham
*Stuntney
*Sutton
*Swaffham Bulbeck
*Swaffham Prior
*Upware
*Wicken
*Wilburton
*Witcham
*Witchford
*Woodditton

References

ee also

*Suffolk
*Isleham Hoard


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