Waterbeach
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- For other uses, see Waterbeach (disambiguation).
| Waterbeach | |
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| Statistics | |
| Population: | 4,690 |
| Ordnance Survey | |
| OS grid reference: | TL496654 |
| Administration | |
| District: | South Cambridgeshire |
| Shire county: | Cambridgeshire |
| Region: | East of England |
| Constituent country: | England |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom |
| Other | |
| Ceremonial county: | Cambridgeshire |
| Historic county: | Cambridgeshire |
| Services | |
| Police force: | Cambridgeshire |
| Fire and rescue: | {{{Fire}}} |
| Ambulance: | East of England |
| Post office and telephone | |
| Post town: | CAMBRIDGE |
| Postal district: | CB25 |
| Dialling code: | 01223 |
| Politics | |
| UK Parliament: | South East Cambridgeshire |
| European Parliament: | East |
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Waterbeach is a large fen-edge village north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire in England, and belongs to the administrative district of South Cambridgeshire. The parish covers an area of 23.26 km².
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[edit] History
Waterbeach is on the Car Dyke, a Roman canal whose course can be traced as far as Lincoln. Recent archaeological investigations have found extensive evidence on Roman settlement at the south end of the village.
Waterbeach appears in the Domesday Book as Utbech.
[edit] Today
Waterbeach has numerous shops and a Post Office, a primary school, a church, a small independent library, three public houses (The Sun, The White Horse and The Brewery Tap), a Tandoori restaurant (The Slap Up Tandoori) and a social club. Waterbeach railway station lies on the London (Kings Cross) to King's Lynn line, allowing some of its residents to commute to London for work. The village lies close to the busy A10 road that also links London to King's Lynn. A regular bus service also operates through the village that links Cambridge to the towns of March, Wisbech and Littleport and the small city of Ely.
The Royal Air Force base (now Waterbeach Barracks) in the north of the village was built in 1940.
The parish contains two Scheduled Ancient Monuments: Denny Abbey (now a museum) and the site of Waterbeach Abbey (near the present church).
