Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cam, or Granta

Cam, or Granta, river, Cambridgeshire; rises on SW. border of co., near Ashwell, and flows NE. past Cambridge to confluence with river Ouse 3½ miles above Ely; is 40 miles long, and is navigable from the Ouse to Cambridge.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Cambridgeshire AncC
Place names: CAM     |     CAM OR GRANTA     |     GRANTA

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