Soham, the Glossary
Soham is a town and civil parish in the district of East Cambridgeshire, in Cambridgeshire, England, just off the A142 between Ely and Newmarket.[1]
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- Towns in Cambridgeshire
A142 road
The A142 is a road that runs from Newmarket in Suffolk to Chatteris in Cambridgeshire.
Aerial photography
Aerial photography (or airborne imagery) is the taking of photographs from an aircraft or other airborne platforms.
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Ammunition
Ammunition is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system.
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Æthelflæd of Damerham
Æthelflæd of Damerham was Queen of the English as the second wife of King Edmund I from their marriage 944 until Edmund died in 946.
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Barway
Barway is a hamlet in Cambridgeshire, England, about three miles south of Ely.
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BBC East
BBC East is one of BBC's English Regions covering Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and parts of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire (including the City of Milton Keynes).
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Cambridgeshire, parts of Suffolk and parts of Lincolnshire.
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Ben Gimbert
Benjamin Gimbert, GC (6 February 1903 – 6 May 1976) was a British engine driver with the London and North Eastern Railway and a recipient of both the George Cross and the Order of Industrial Heroism.
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.
Burnt Fen
Burnt Fen is an area of low-lying land crossed by the A1101 road between Littleport in Cambridgeshire and Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. Soham and Burnt Fen are east Cambridgeshire District.
Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. Soham and Cambridge are towns in Cambridgeshire.
Cambridge News
The Cambridge News (formerly the Cambridge Evening News) is a British daily newspaper.
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.
Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.
Cnut
Cnut (Knútr; c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035.
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Danes (tribe)
The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, northern and eastern England, and the Scanian provinces of modern-day southern Sweden, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age.
Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire
Devil's Dyke or Devil's Ditch is a linear earthen barrier, thought to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, in eastern Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.
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Ditch
A ditch is a small to moderate trench created to channel water.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.
East Cambridgeshire
East Cambridgeshire (locally known as East Cambs) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Soham and East Cambridgeshire are east Cambridgeshire District.
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Edmund I
Edmund I or Eadmund I (920/921 – 26 May 946) was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death in 946.
Ely and East Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Ely and East Cambridgeshire is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.
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Ely, Cambridgeshire
Ely is a cathedral city and civil parish in the East Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about north-northeast of Cambridge, south east of Peterborough and from London. Soham and Ely, Cambridgeshire are civil parishes in Cambridgeshire, east Cambridgeshire District and towns in Cambridgeshire.
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Felix of Burgundy
Felix of Burgundy (died 8 March 647 or 648), also known as Felix of Dunwich, was the first bishop of the kingdom of the East Angles.
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Felixstowe
Felixstowe is a port town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.
Fen
A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water.
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George Cross
The George Cross (GC) is the highest award bestowed by the British government for non-operational gallantry or gallantry not in the presence of an enemy.
Grave goods
Grave goods, in archaeology and anthropology, are items buried along with a body.
Harwich
Harwich is a town in Essex, England, and one of the Haven ports on the North Sea coast.
Heart East
Heart East is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Heart network.
Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent
Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent (c. 1170 – before 5 May 1243) was an English nobleman who served as Chief Justiciar of England (1215–1232) and Justiciar of Ireland (1232) during the reigns of King John and his son and successor King Henry III and, as Regent of England (1219–1227) during Henry's minority, was one of the most influential and powerful men in English politics in the thirteenth century.
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Ipswich
Ipswich is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England.
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
ITV Anglia
ITV Anglia, previously known as Anglia Television, is the ITV franchise holder for the East of England.
James Nightall
Railwayman James William Nightall (20May 19222June 1944) was posthumously awarded the George Cross and the Order of Industrial Heroism for the gallantry he showed during the Soham rail disaster.
Joanna Vassa
Joanna Vassa (11 April 1795 – 10 March 1857) was the only surviving child of the former slave and anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano.
Liber Eliensis
The Liber Eliensis is a 12th-century English chronicle and history, written in Latin.
List of places in Cambridgeshire
This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
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Little Thetford
Little Thetford is a small village in the civil parish of Thetford, south of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England, about by road from London. Soham and Little Thetford are east Cambridgeshire District.
Littleport
Littleport is a village in East Cambridgeshire, in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Soham and Littleport are civil parishes in Cambridgeshire and east Cambridgeshire District.
Newmarket, Suffolk
Newmarket is a market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, located 14 miles west of Bury St Edmunds and 14 miles northeast of Cambridge.
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Non-League football describes football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country.
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Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.
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Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist.
Palermo, Buenos Aires
Palermo is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Portland stone
Portland stone is a limestone geological formation (formally named the Portland Stone Formation) dating to the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic that is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England.
Posthumous award
A posthumous award is granted after the recipient has died.
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Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944) is a member of the British royal family.
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RAF Lakenheath
Royal Air Force Lakenheath or RAF Lakenheath is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, UK, north-east of Mildenhall and west of Thetford.
Sandy Heath transmitting station
Sandy Heath transmitting station is a television and radio broadcasting station in England, located between Sandy, Bedfordshire and Potton near the B1042.
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Soham Abbey
Soham Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon monastery in Soham, which at the time was in the Kingdom of East Anglia.
Soham railway station
Soham railway station is a station on the Ipswich–Ely line, serving the town of Soham in Cambridgeshire.
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Soham Town Rangers F.C.
Soham Town Rangers Football Club is an English football club based in Soham, Cambridgeshire.
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Soham Village College
Soham Village College is a secondary school with academy status located in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.
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Stagecoach Group
Stagecoach Group is a transport group based in Perth, Scotland.
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Star Radio (Cambridge and Ely)
Star Radio is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting on 100.7 MHz in Cambridge, 107.1 MHz in Ely, 107.3 MHz in Saffron Walden, and 107.9 MHz in Haverhill.
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Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
Tacolneston transmitting station
The Tacolneston transmitting station is a facility for both analogue and digital VHF/FM radio and UHF television transmission near Tacolneston, south-west of Norwich, Norfolk, England.
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Torc
A torc, also spelled torq or torque, is a large rigid or stiff neck ring in metal, made either as a single piece or from strands twisted together.
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Town
A town is a type of a human settlement.
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Train
A train (from Old French trahiner, from Latin trahere, "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight.
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Whittlesey Mere
Whittlesea Mere was an area of open water in the Fenland area of the county of Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), England.
William C. Morris, Buenos Aires
William C. Morris is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See also
Towns in Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge
- Chatteris
- Ely, Cambridgeshire
- Godmanchester
- Huntingdon
- Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire
- March, Cambridgeshire
- Peterborough
- Ramsey, Cambridgeshire
- Soham
- St Ives, Cambridgeshire
- St Neots
- Whittlesey
- Wisbech
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham
Also known as Broad Hill, Soham Cotes, Soham, Cambridgeshire, William Case Morris.
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