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Photo of Grantchester, a village in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

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Grantchester

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Rupert Brooke lodged at Grantchester before the First World War and made its Orchard tea garden famous in verse; you can still take tea under the apple trees there. Meadow paths follow the Cam out from Cambridge to the village, past St Mary the Virgin. Cambridge South station is under 3km east.

More places to visit near Grantchester

Photo of Coton Country Park, a country park near Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.

Coton Country Park

Country park near Grantchester

A country park in Cambridgeshire.

2.5 km NW

Photo of Cambridge University Botanic Garden, a Grade II* registered house & garden in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

House & garden near Cambridge

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

2.8 km NE

Photo of King's College, a Grade II* registered house & garden in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Iconic

King's College

House & garden near Cambridge

Soaring fan-vaulted Gothic seen over the Backs.

3.1 km NE

Photo of St John's College, a Grade II* registered house & garden in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

St John's College

House & garden near Cambridge

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

3.6 km NE

Photo of Cambridge American Cemetery, a landmark in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Cambridge American Cemetery

Landmark near Cambridge

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

4.9 km NW

Photo of Queen's Head, a pub near Newton, Cambridgeshire, eastern England.Highlight

Queen's Head

Pub near Newton

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

6.1 km S