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Service animals allowed
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Specialized infant seats are available
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Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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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 story, 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, Fair...
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Historical Humour
A copy of a 500 year old map to hep you navigate through the Old Town of Cambridge.
Historical Facts
Guided walking tour of the old Town of Cambridge (aka historic town/city centre)
We won't be going inside any of the buildings we visit from the outside, including colleges and churches, this tour is all outside.
Meeting Points
Departure
Cambridge Market Square
Find us on Market Hill, in front of the Guildhall.
It's the massive building with the clock on it.
We'll be wearing white Experience Cambridge hi-viz jackets.
Return
History of Cambridge Old Town Tour
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Cambridgeshire
About
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 story, 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, Fair...
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Historical Humour
A copy of a 500 year old map to hep you navigate through the Old Town of Cambridge.
Historical Facts
Guided walking tour of the old Town of Cambridge (aka historic town/city centre)
We won't be going inside any of the buildings we visit from the outside, including colleges and churches, this tour is all outside.
Meeting Points
Departure
Cambridge Market Square
Find us on Market Hill, in front of the Guildhall.
It's the massive building with the clock on it.
We'll be wearing white Experience Cambridge hi-viz jackets.
Return
Itinerary
1
Market Square
How did Cambridge become a town?
How was the market so important?
How was the market laid out in medieval times?
10 minutes
2
Great St Mary's Church (Church of England)
Originally St-Mary's-by-the-market, now the famous University Church, what's the story behind this building and the arrival of the scholars in Cambridge?
10 minutes
3
Sidney Sussex College
Monks, monasteries, reformation, regicide, a few beheadings.. what's not to love?
[no access to college - we are old townspeople after all]
10 minutes
4
St, Clement's Church
Site of the earliest church in Cambridge, dedicated to the patron saint of sailors?
[outside only]
10 minutes
5
Jesus Green
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]
15 minutes
6
Magdalene Bridge
Why are we called Cambridge?
And Vikings!
10 minutes
7
St. John's College
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]
10 minutes
8
Cambridge University Press Bookshop
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.
10 minutes
9
St Bene't's Church (Church of England)
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]
