The Cambridge Building Society is a UK building society based in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. It is the 13th largest in the United Kingdom based on total assets of £942 million at 31 December 2010. It is a member of the Building Societies Association.
The Society was formed in 1850 as the Cambridgeshire Permanent Benefit Building Society, adopting its current name in 1945. There is no connection between this Society and the Cambridge Foresters’ Benefit Building Society which was dissolved in 1960 or the Cambridge Peers Economic Building Society which was dissolved in 1972.
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