Ramsey

Ramsey
/ram"zee/, n.
1. Arthur Michael, (Baron Ramsey of Canterbury), born 1904, English clergyman and scholar: archbishop of Canterbury 1961-74.
2. a town in NE New Jersey. 12,899.
3. a town in SE Minnesota. 10,093.
4. a male given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning "wooded island."

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      town (parish), Huntingdonshire district, administrative county of Cambridgeshire, historic county of Huntingdonshire, England. The town serves an intensively cultivated hinterland on the southwest border of the Fens, a reclaimed region adjoining the North Sea. Ramsey developed around a 10th-century Benedictine abbey, which was granted freedom from ecclesiastical and secular control before the Norman Conquest (1066). The abbey was an early English seat of learning, with a library of Hebrew books. After the dissolution of the monasteries (1536–39), its demesnes were granted to Sir Richard Cromwell, ancestor of Oliver Cromwell. A grammar school now occupies part of the site of the abbey. Pop. (2001) 8,047.

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