List of churches in Cambridgeshire

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Lists of churches in Cambridgeshire may be found in the six lists for each of the ceremonial county's constituent districts. A summary of statistics is given below.

Cambridgeshire County of England

Cambridgeshire is a county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. The city of Cambridge is the county town. Modern Cambridgeshire was formed in 1974 as an amalgamation of the counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and Peterborough, the former covering the historic county of Cambridgeshire and the latter covering the historic county of Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough, historically part of Northamptonshire. It contains most of the region known as Silicon Fen.

DistrictCambridgeSouth CambsHuntingdonshireEast CambsFenlandPeterboroughTotal
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Total churches97147131715284582
Population (2016 est.)131,800156,500175,70087,800100,200197,100849,100
Inhabitants per church1,3591,0651,3411,2371,9272,3461,459
By denomination*
Church of England 4611028440233334
Methodist 4913111754
Baptist Union 617673645
United Reformed 313334329
Roman Catholic 62624626
FIEC 4232112
Others30918912103

*numbers may not add to total due to some churches counting towards more than one denomination

1includes twenty college chapels

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