List of Monastic Houses in Cambridgeshire - Map Link To Lists of Monastic Houses in England By County

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“When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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