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- also named the Granta, but after the name of the Anglo-Saxon town of Grantebrycge had been modified to Cambridge, the river was renamed to match. Grantchester...
- Their settlement – also on and around Castle Hill – became known as Grantebrycge ("Granta-bridge". By Middle English, the settlement's name had changed...
- River Cam, which originally was called the Granta, but when the town of Grantebrycge became Cambridge, the river's name changed to match the toponym. Another...
- (unusually) its present name derives from the city of Cambridge (Old English: Grantebrycge) rather than the other way around: After the city's present name developed...
- Eoforwic (7th century) → Jórvík (c. 866) → York Duroliponte (Roman) → Grantebrycge (9th century) → Cantabrigia (16th century) → Cambridge Monkchester →...