Cambridgeshire
"I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word" A. E. Housman
Cambridgeshire is best known for Cambridge, which is one of those cities that you have probably heard of and that makes you immediately think of the famous University. But this historic region also has much more to offer. Taking a trip to Cambridge means not only visiting a fantastic city, but also setting foot in one of the places where human thought has given its best. Passing by the buildings where some of the most brilliant kids in the world have studied, you feel galvanized by the academic excellence that has inhabited these classrooms.
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Anglesey Abbey, Gardens and Lode Mill, Cambridge, England
Anglesey Abbey has over 900 years of history for you to explore.
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Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cambridge
Located in Cambridge, the Cambridge Museum of Technology is an industrial heritage museum. The original listed building housed a combined sewage pumping and waste disposal plant built in 1894.
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Cambridge Science Centre, Cambridge
The Cambridge Science Centre, originally located on Jesus Lane in Cambridge, is the city's first interactive science museum.
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Chippenham Park Gardens, Newmarket
At the end of the 17th century Admiral Lord Russell, Earl of Orford, received permission from William III to create a park on 330 acres and build a large country house, Chippenham Park.
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Elton Hall and Gardens, Elton, Cambridgeshire
For centuries Elton Hall has sat in extensive parkland leading down to the River Nene. The gardens have expanded from moated grounds to formal gardens and in the early 19th century, the garden was enlarged to include picturesque views of the park and surrounding woodland.
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Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridge
As Britain's largest aviation museum, Duxford houses nearly 200 aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels across seven exhibition buildings. A visit includes walking through the same hangars and buildings as those who served at RAF Duxford, seeing aircraft take to the skies from the airfield that Spitfires first flew, and getting up close to over a century of aviation.
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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
The museum, founded in 1884, has one of the most important collections of its kind in the UK.
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Museum of Cambridge, Cambridge
Within a 17th-century former coaching inn, the museum’s collections represent over 300 years of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire history.
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Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
The museum has one of the largest plaster cast collections in the world, with over 450 casts on display.
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Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough
This museum has an extensive collection of oil paintings, ranging from the 17th-century to the early 21st-century.
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Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve, Wicken, England
The National Trust's oldest nature reserve, and England's most famous fen
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Wimpole Estate, Arrington, Royston
A working estate still guided by the seasons, with an impressive mansion and Home Farm
