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Great Shelford Great Shelford is a village located to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England. It is best known as the home of the children's author Philippa Pearce, who renamed it "Great Barley" (with the neighbouring village of Little Shelford becoming "Little Barley", and Cambridge itself becoming "Castleford" and losing its university) in her books, most notably Minnow on the Say (1955). In this and other books the River Cam, which flows through the village, became the River Say. The writer was brought up in Great Shelford and after some years in London has lived there again since 1973. The villages of Great and Little Shelford are served by a railway station on the line from Cambridge to London Liverpool Street. See also External links
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