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The county boundary between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk actually runs along the middle of the river at this point, so the church is in Norfolk, while the pub is in Cambridgeshire!

The last remaining windpump in Cambridgeshire was taken from nearby Adventurer's Fen and resited at Wicken Fen in 1956.

Castor stands on the junction of the two main Roman roads in this part of Cambridgeshire, Ermine Street and King's Street.

Situated on the Cambridgeshire border with Bedfordshire, Gamlingay was once a thriving market town.

Back in 1900, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire said of March's Market Place:'the Fire Engine House is in the Market Place; there is one 40 horse power steam engine by Shand and Mason, with about half-a-mile

The hall itself, an Elizabethan mansion, was built on the site of a former castle built by the Sheriff of Cambridgeshire after the Norman conquest.

This one is the only example of a clapper stile in Cambridgeshire.

The higgledy-piggledy development of this small country market town which resulted from its unusual position on the county border of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire until 1896 is evident in this overall

The cruciform church of St Kyneburga is the most important Norman church in Cambridgeshire.

Less than ten years later, Huntingdonshire was merged with Cambridgeshire, and the residents could truthfully say that they were amongst the few that had lived in the same house but in three counties

This is a fine old Cambridgeshire smock mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail; it was built in 1808, and ceased work in 1937.

It is a typical building of the Cambridgeshire countryside, three rooms long with an entrance opposite the chimney stack. There is a plaque dated 1622 on the chimney-stack.

The mill has been in the care of the Cambridgeshire Preservation Trust since 1932.

The Royalist chaplain to Prince Rupert was rector in 1629-31, followed much later by William Cole, the Cambridgeshire antiquary, from 1768.

Eyensbury is now in Cambridgeshire but was formerly in Huntingdonshire. Eynesbury very much plays second fiddle to the town of St Neots, from which it is separated only by the Hen Brook.

The town was 'carved' out of four parishes - Bassingbourn and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire and Therfield and Barkway in Hertfordshire. Lady Roysia's manor of Newsells lay in the parish of Barkway.

This is the largest smock mill in Cambridgeshire. It was built for William Huckle in 1828; in the 1890s the mill was bought by Charles Cattell, and it is known as Cattell's mill to this day.

The Local Government Act of 1972 ended the old borough, and created a large district in its place, incorporating the old Soke and extending into Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.

All these schemes mark a determination to make St Neots not only the largest town in Cambridgeshire but also the best and one of which all who live in it can feel proud.

This shows the early 16th-century nave and aisle designed by John Wastell, the architect of King's College, Cambridge. Sir George Scott designed the hammer-beam roof and the chancel (1865-69).