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By Experience Cambridge

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Free cancellation available
Price is S$34 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
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Overview

  • Discover the (almost) complete history of the Cambridge Town (and a bit of Gown) in a fun, unusual walking tour led by our fantastic Experience Leaders - local guides with lived experience of homelessness in Cambridge.

    We lead you on a different tour through old Cambridge and discover the Town from the view of the townspeople through the centuries up to today. This is our storey, not the standard university history.

    Using a 500-year-old map, facts and a big dollop of humour; we'll navigate all around the historic Town and it's politics through 2000 years of history to the City we live in today.

    Warning! Contains: Anglo-Saxons, Fires, Beheadings, Vikings, Normans, Town vs Gown fights, Fairs, Kings, Queens, Civil War, Common Land, Churches, Charters, Chancellors, Monks, Mayors, Markets and more.

    If you're new to Cambridge you'll come way understanding the storey of the Town in a way most visitors never will.

    If you think you know Cambridge, you're in for a surprise.

Activity location

  • Market Square
    • Market Street,
    • CB2 3QJ, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Walter 'Snowy' Farr Statue
    • CB2 3NJ, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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History of Cambridge Old Town Tour

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 19:00
Price details
S$33.91 x 1 AdultS$33.91
Total
Price is S$33.91
Until Thu, 8 Oct

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Historical Humour
  • Inclusions
    A copy of a 500 year old map to hep you navigate through the Old Town of Cambridge.
  • Inclusions
    Historical Facts
  • Inclusions
    Guided walking tour of the old Town of Cambridge (aka historic town/city centre)
  • Exclusions
    We won't be going inside any of the buildings we visit from the outside, including colleges and churches, this tour is all outside.

Know before you book

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
    • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Market Square

  • 10m
How did Cambridge become a town? How was the market so important? How was the market laid out in medieval times?

Great St Mary's Church (Church of England)

  • 10m
Originally St-Mary's-by-the-market, now the famous University Church, what's the storey behind this building and the arrival of the scholars in Cambridge?

Sidney Sussex College

  • 10m
Monks, monasteries, reformation, regicide, a few beheadings.. what's not to love? [no access to college - we are old townspeople after all]

St, Clement's Church

  • 10m
Site of the earliest church in Cambridge, dedicated to the patron saint of sailors? [outside only]

Jesus Green

  • 15m
Common land, enclosure, arrival and kingdom of the East Angles, fairs - who/what set the borders of the old town and what happened outside of them? [also toilet and rest break]

Magdalene Bridge

  • 10m
Why are we called Cambridge? And Vikings!

St. John's College

  • 10m
Cambridge joins the new Kingdom of England. The Norman's turn up. The Round Church is built. The medieval public hospital and monk annoying other monks. [Not entering the college or church - just looking form outside like the common townspeople we are]

Cambridge University Press Bookshop

  • 10m
Old bookshops and the right to print, Dr Caius strange requests, the Senate House, fighting for space and some fun facts about King's College Chapel.

St Bene't's Church (Church of England)

  • 15m
The oldest building, Angles again, Corpus Christi College, the secret of life, the Eagle pub, end of the old town and back out into the city. [No entry to buildings - all outside]

Location

Activity location

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    Market Square
    • Market Street,
    • CB2 3QJ, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Walter 'Snowy' Farr Statue
    • CB2 3NJ, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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