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Comberton occurs as village inside in the south Cambridgeshire, in East Anglia, England.

Geography
Comberton is astir Captain hicks miles (Decade klick) west of the city of Cambridge, and merely half the mile (800 m) east of the Meridian Line, lying at the mild elevation of in the area of Xxv feet (Viii m) above sea-level. A Parish covers 1,954 acres (7.Nina from carolina kilometre²), & is a portion of the administrative district of South Cambridgeshire. Nearby villages include Barton to the east and Toft to the west. Comberton is twinned by having Le Vaudreuil, a village touching Rouen, France.

History
Archaelogical finds, including the Neolithic polished stone axe (detected south of the todays village) & the Bronze Age barrow (to the north), indicate ton text has been the award here for hundreds to thousands of years. The Roman Villa was discovered inside 1842. A village was mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Cumbertone", and clearly dates to at least a 11th Century. A few of a houses in the village date from either the 14th Century.

Comberton now hwhen the todays people of astir 2400 (as of 2005). It features 2 churches: the Church of England St. Mary's, an Early English-style building dating from either a 13th Century, and the Baptist Church dating from 1861. It likewise has many pubs, shops, a primary school and a secondary school, post office, recreation ground, a Doctor's Surgery, and a village pond with resident ducks.

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