Granta

English

Proper noun

Granta

1. The River Granta, a minor river in Cambridgeshire, England, which flows from the Bartlow area to join the River Cam (or Granta) at Great Shelford.
   • 1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619:

     The six-mile section from Haverhill to Bartlow carries the line over a high ridge into the valley of the River Granta.

2. Synonym of the River Cam south of Cambridge, especially south of Hauxton Junction, the confluence with the River Cam or Rhee.
3. A locality in the County of Newell, Alberta, Canada.