Cambridge is a municipal and parliamentary borough, head of a petty sessional division, county court district and union, the county town and the site of one of the two ancient universities of England, and is on the banks of the Cam or Granta, with stations on the Great Eastern and Great Northern railways, 57½ miles from London by rail, 14 south-west from Ely, 15 west from Newmarket, 38 south from Wisbech and 68½ south-by-south-west from Norwich.