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England’s forgotten shire, that lives on in spirit if not in name

 Where would you go to find the lowest point in Great Britain, England’s biggest meadow, oldest house, earliest church spire and oldest inn, the loveliest of England’s four bridge chapels, the castle where a Queen of England died of a broken heart, England’s most picturesque water mill and the village that gave its name to the king of cheeses?

Huntingdonshire, England’s Forgotten Shire, that’s where.