Cambridge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the English city. For the city next to Boston , Massachusetts , United States, see Cambridge, Massachusetts . For the city in Ontario , Canada , see Cambridge, Ontario . For other uses, see Cambridge (disambiguation) . Early modern Cambridge in 1575 Following repeated outbreaks of pestilence throughout the 16th Century, [32] sanitation and fresh water were brought to Cambridge by the construction of Hobson's Conduit in the early 1600s. Water was brought from Nine Wells, at the foot of the Gog Magog Hills , into the centre of the town. [33] Cambridge played a significant role in the early part of the English Civil War as it was the headquarters of the Eastern Counties Association , an organisation administering a regional East Anglian army, which became the mainstay of the Parliamentarian military effort before the formation of the New Model Army . [ 34] In 1643 control o...