Places to explore near Cambridge South StationCambridge

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

2.2 km N

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

2.7 km W · Cambridgeshire

Soaring fan-vaulted Gothic seen over the Backs.

3.5 km N

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

4 km N

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

6 km S

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

7 km NW

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

7.6 km E

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

8.9 km S

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

9.3 km SW

Jacobean house with famous winter garden walk.

9.9 km NE

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

2.2 km N · Cambridgeshire & Norfolk

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

2.5 km W

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

2.8 km N · Cambridgeshire

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

3.3 km N

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

3.4 km N

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

3.6 km SE

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

4.8 km N

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

4.8 km NW