Places to explore near Cambridge

Soaring fan-vaulted Gothic seen over the Backs.

0.6 km W

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

0.6 km NW

Founded in 1846 by Darwin's teacher, forty acres of beds and glasshouses.

1.3 km S

Thatched village on the Cam where meadow paths lead in from Cambridge to the Orchard tea garden Rupert Brooke made famous.

3.5 km SW · Cambridgeshire

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

4.7 km W

Jacobean house with famous winter garden walk.

8.6 km NE

A simple two-room village local of scrubbed tables and settles serving Adnams by gravity, soup and sandwiches only.

9.1 km S

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

9.3 km SE

A small, friendly wildlife park between Cambridge and Royston, home to red pandas, big cats and a bug house.

11.6 km SW

Europe's largest air museum, on a surviving Battle of Britain airfield, with hangars of historic aircraft and regular flying displays.

12.3 km S

Fen-edge village famous for two medieval churches sharing one churchyard, with a pair of restored windmills on the hill above.

13 km NE · Cambridgeshire

Grand mansion with folly and vast parkland.

13.4 km SW

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

14 km NE

Last fragment of ancient undrained fenland.

14.4 km NE

A preserved 1831 steam beam-engine and its tall chimney beside the Old West River, once scooping fen water up to the drain.

16 km NE

A rare survival, one of only a handful of medieval bridges in England still carrying a stone chapel, spanning the Great Ouse.

18.8 km NW

Riverside village on the Great Ouse with a moated 12th-century manor, the oldest inhabited house in England, and a church that lost its spire to a storm.

18.9 km NW · Cambridgeshire

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

19.1 km SE

Hertfordshire's grand circuit from the Royce Stone at Royston — chalk streams, commons and country houses for nearly 200 miles.

20 km SW · Hertfordshire

Village pub in rural north Hertfordshire, listed among Britain's 100 best.

20.7 km S

Village pub near Newmarket with carefully prepared, good-value dishes.

20.8 km NE

Picture-book Ouse-valley village of thatched cottages gathered around a green, with a National Trust watermill on the river.

21.3 km NW · Cambridgeshire

Grand Jacobean palace in Capability Brown parkland.

21.4 km S

A medieval market town of pargeted houses and a maze on the common, named for the saffron crocus once grown here and crowned by the largest church in Essex.

22 km S · Essex

The timber-framed Ely home where Cromwell lived while collecting fen tithes, now a museum of his life and the Civil War.

23.5 km NE

Great lantern tower riding above the flat Fens.

23.5 km NE

Small cathedral city on an Isle above the Fens, its Ship of the Fens towering over riverside walks, a market and Cromwell's old house.

23.6 km NE · Cambridgeshire

Cambridge to King's Lynn beside the Cam and the Great Ouse, dead level across the Fens under a blue eel waymark.

0.2 km E · Cambridgeshire & Norfolk

A college garden on a Dominican friary site, watered by Hobson's Conduit since the 1630s.

0.2 km SE

Cambridge's most storied pub, where Crick and Watson announced the structure of DNA and wartime airmen scorched their names on the ceiling.

0.3 km W

The Backs, the boathouses and the fen reaches below — Cambridge's river, navigable down to its meeting with the Great Ouse.

0.5 km NW · Cambridgeshire

The only cemetery J.C. Loudon completed to his own 1843 plan, unaltered since.

1.4 km NW

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

3.1 km W

The mellow riverside church at the heart of Rupert Brooke's Grantchester, its clock immortalised in his wartime poem.

3.4 km SW

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

4.3 km NE