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The Almost Complete History of the Old Town of Cambridge

By Experience Cambridge
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Price is €24 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
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Overview

Come on a different walking tour through old Cambridge and discover the Town and colleges from the view of the townspeople through the centuries up to today

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

May contain: Anglo-Saxons, Fires, Beheadings, Vikings, Normans, Town vs Gown drama, Fairs, Kings, Queens, Common Land, Churches, Charters, Chancellors, Monks, Mayors, Markets and a potential grave robbery.

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 probably in for a surprise.

If that wasn't enough, we're a local social enterprise promoting Cambridge history, culture and sustainable tourism; your fantastic Experience Leaders are local people with lived experience of exclusion, particularly homelessness, in Cambridge.

Activity location

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

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Cambridgeshire
    • CB2, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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The Almost Complete History of the Old Town of Cambridge
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
€24.08 x 1 Adult€24.08
Total
Price is €24.08
Until Fri, 10 Apr

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Historical Humour
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Historical Facts
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guided walking tour of the old Town of Cambridge (aka historic town/city centre)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    A copy of a 500 year old map to hep you navigate through the Old Town of Cambridge.
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    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
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

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

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Cambridgeshire
    • CB2, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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