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Paradise Nature Reserve
History of Paradise
Paradise is a small island created by several minor tributaries of the River Cam. Formerly the name referred to the whole area up to Lammas Land.
The earliest mention of bathing in Cambridge records that in 1567 the son of Walter Haddon, while at King’s College, was drowned while ‘washing himself in a place in the river Cham called Paradise.’ It was here that in 1811, Byron’s friend Matthews became entangled in weeds and was drowned.
Cambridge City Council web site:
https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/paradise-local-nature-reserve
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Local_Nature_Reserve
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