Places to explore in CambridgeshireEngland · East of England

Turreted Elizabethan prodigy house near Stamford.

Soaring fan-vaulted Gothic seen over the Backs.

Great lantern tower riding above the flat Fens.

Britain's only permanent American Second World War cemetery, its curving Wall of the Missing and 3,800 graves on a hillside at Madingley.

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

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Jacobean house with famous winter garden walk.

Dramatic Norman nave and painted timber ceiling.

A Cambridge college of 1511 spanning the Cam by the covered Gothic Bridge of Sighs.

The largest Roman burial mounds in northern Europe, a cluster of grassy cones hidden in trees at tiny Bartlow near the Essex border.

A vast Anglo-Saxon earthwork running dead straight for seven miles from the fen at Reach to the wooded chalk, walkable along its crest.

Bronze Age timber causeway preserved in the Peterborough peat, with a reconstructed roundhouse and a museum of fenland finds.

A second great Anglo-Saxon defensive bank crossing the chalk near Fulbourn, a chalk-grassland ridge walk rich in wildflowers.