Cambridgeshire Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
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Top Places to visit in Cambridgeshire:
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, American Air Museum, Peterborough Cathedral, The Centre for Computing History, King's College Chapel, Ely Cathedral, Fitzwilliam Museum, The River Cam, Anglesey Abbey, Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve, Pembroke College, Scott Polar Research Institute, The Backs
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Places to see in ( Cambridge - UK )
Places to see in ( Cambridge - UK )
Cambridge is a city on the River Cam in eastern England, home to the prestigious University of Cambridge, dating to 1209. University colleges include King’s, famed for its choir and towering Gothic chapel, as well as Trinity, founded by Henry VIII, and St John’s, with its 16th-century Great Gate. University museums have exhibits on archaeology and anthropology, polar exploration, the history of science and zoology.
Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam about 50 miles (80 km) north of London. Cambridge became an important trading centre. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although city status was not conferred until 1951.
The University of Cambridge, founded in 1209, is one of the top five universities in the world. The university includes the Cavendish Laboratory, King's College Chapel, and the Cambridge University Library. The city's skyline is dominated by the last two buildings, along with the spire of the Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church, the chimney of Addenbrooke's Hospital and St John's College Chapel tower. Anglia Ruskin University, evolved from the Cambridge School of Art and the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, also has its main campus in the city.
Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology Silicon Fen with industries such as software and bioscience and many start-up companies born out of the university. More than 40% of the workforce has a higher education qualification, more than twice the national average. The Cambridge Biomedical Campus, one of the largest biomedical research clusters in the world, is soon to be home to AstraZeneca, a hotel and the relocated Papworth Hospital.
Parker's Piece hosted the first ever game of Association football. The Strawberry Fair music and arts festival and Midsummer Fairs are held on Midsummer Common, and the annual Cambridge Beer Festival takes place on Jesus Green. The city is adjacent to the M11 and A14 roads, and Cambridge station is less than an hour from London King's Cross railway station.
Alot to see in ( Cambridge - UK ) such as :
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
The Backs
Anglesey Abbey
Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge
Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Museum of Cambridge
Ely Cathedral
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Parker's Piece
Cambridge Museum of Technology
Cambridge University Museum of Zoology
Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
Christ's Pieces
Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church
Cambridge Castle
Little St Mary's, Cambridge
Fen Rivers Way
Imperial War Museum Duxford
Pleasurewood Hills
King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Bridge of Sighs
Mathematical Bridge
Shepreth Wildlife Park
Jesus Green
Footprints tours
Cambridge Science Centre
River Cam
Cherry Hinton Hall
Cambridge Contemporary Art
Coe Fen
The Polar Museum
Coleridge Recreation Ground
Wheeler Street, Cambridge
Wandlebury Country Park
Wandlebury Hill
Clip 'n Climb Cambridge
Cherry Hinton Pit
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St Ives, jewel of Cambridgeshire.
The ancient riverport of St. Ives, in Cambridgeshire, is a wonderful place to visit. Once home to Oliver Cromwell's army during the English Civil War. His troops destroyed part of the old medieval bridge in order to halt the advance of the Royalist army heading south to London.
Places to see in ( Huntingdon - UK )
Places to see in ( Huntingdon - UK )
Huntingdon is a market town in Cambridgeshire, England. The town was chartered by King John in 1205. Huntingdon is the traditional county town of Huntingdonshire and the seat of the Huntingdonshire district council.
Huntingdon is well known as the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell, who was born in 1599 and was the member of parliament (MP) for the town in the 17th century. The George Hotel, on the corner of High Street and George Street was once a posting house. It was named after St. George in 1574 and was bought some 25 years later by Henry Cromwell, grandfather of Oliver Cromwell. Charles I made The George his headquarters in 1645. Later Dick Turpin is reputed to have been a visitor when it was a coaching inn on the Great North Road.
Huntingdon lies on the north bank of the River Great Ouse, opposite Godmanchester and close to the market town of St Ives in the east and the village of Brampton in the west. Huntingdon now incorporates the village of Hartford to the east, and the developing areas of Oxmoor, Stukeley Meadows and Hinchingbrooke to the north and west. Between Godmanchester, Huntingdon and Brampton lies England's largest meadow, Portholme Meadow.
Huntingdon is home to many local businesses, including a local Horseracing Course, Huntingdon Racecourse. Hinchingbrooke Business Park has many offices and warehouses located in it. Huntingdon railway station has direct services to London Kings Cross station. It is served by Great Northern.
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Huntingdon english city near Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Huntingdon is a town in Cambridgeshire, England.
The town is known as the birthplace in 1599 of Oliver Cromwell.
Trainspotting at York Station, ECML | 15/08/18
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After arriving from Peterborough on a HST we do some trainspotting at this beautiful station! We did take some breaks such as visiting the rail museum and having a ride on the 'Road Train'
York info:
York railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the city of York, North Yorkshire. It is 188 miles 40 chains (303.4 km) north of London King's Cross and on the main line it is situated between Doncaster to the south and Thirsk to the north.
York's station is a key junction approximately halfway between London and Edinburgh. It is approximately five miles north of the point where the Cross Country and TransPennine Express routes via Leeds join the main line, connecting Scotland and the North East, North West, Midlands and southern England. The junction was historically a major site for rolling stock manufacture, maintenance and repair.
In Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins, the station was one of only ten to be awarded five stars.
History:
The first York railway station was a temporary wooden building on Queen Street outside the walls of the city, opened in 1839 by the York and North Midland Railway. It was succeeded in 1841, inside the walls, by what is now York old railway station. In due course, the irksome requirement that through trains between London and Newcastle needed to reverse out of the old York station to continue their journey necessitated the construction of a new through station outside the walls.
The present station, designed by the North Eastern Railway architects Thomas Prosser and William Peachey, opened on 25 June 1877. It had 13 platforms and was at that time the largest in the world. As part of the new station project, the Royal Station Hotel (now The Royal York Hotel), designed by Peachey, opened in 1878.
In 1909 new platforms were added, and in 1938 the current footbridge was built and the station resignalled.
The building was heavily bombed during the Second World War. On one occasion, on 29 April 1942, 800 passengers had to be evacuated from a King's Cross-Edinburgh train which arrived during a bombing raid. On the same night, two railway workers were killed, one being station foreman William Milner (born 1900), who died after returning to his burning office to collect his first aid kit. He was posthumously awarded the King's commendation for gallantry. A plaque in his memory has been erected at the station. The station was extensively repaired in 1947.
Services:
London North Eastern Railway operates to London as well as many services northbound to Newcastle and Edinburgh. In addition, there are infrequent services to Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness. The fastest southbound services run non-stop to London, completing the 188 mile journey in 1 hour and 52 minutes.
Crosscountry provides a number of services that run across the country, running as far north as Aberdeen and south as Penzance and Southampton Central via Birmingham New Street
East Midlands Trains provides one weekend return journey between York and London St Pancras via the Midland Main Line, as well as one summer Saturday journey to/from Scarborough
TransPennine Express provides a number of express services across the north of England (to Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street, Newcastle, Scarborough & Middlesbrough)
Northern operates a most hourly service towards Hull, Blackpool North and Leeds serving most stations on route.
Layout:
All the platforms except 9, 10 and 11 are under the large, curved, glass and iron roof. They are accessed via a long footbridge (which also connects to the National Railway Museum) or via lifts and either of two pedestrian tunnels. Between April 1984 and 2011 the old tea rooms housed the Rail Riders World/York Model Railway exhibition.
Major renovation:
The station was renovated in 2009. Platform 9 has been reconstructed and extensive lighting alterations were put in place. New automated ticket gates (similar to those in Leeds) were planned, but the City of York Council wished to avoid spoiling the historic nature of the station. The then operator National Express East Coast planned to appeal the decision but the plans were scrapped altogether upon handover to East Coast.
Recent developments:
The southern side of the station has been given new track and signalling systems. An additional line and new junction was completed in early 2011. This work has helped take away one of the bottlenecks on the East Coast Main Line.
The station has also become the site of one of Network Rail's modern Rail Operation Centres, which opened in September 2014 on land to the west of the station This took over the functions of the former IECC in January 2015 and will eventually control much of the East Coast Main Line from London to the Scottish border and various subsidiary routes across the North East, Lincolnshire and South, North & West Yorkshire.
*ECML Diverts* Train Action at Royston, Meldreth and Cambridge, CHL | 06/01/19
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After having visited the Fen Line on Saturday i take a visit to southern parts of Cambridge including, Royston, Green Drift, Ivy Farm, Meldreth and Cambridge. Despite it being a Sunday it was still very busy.
Royston info:
Royston railway station serves the town of Royston in Hertfordshire, England. The station is 44 miles 72 chains (72.3 km) from London Kings Cross on the Cambridge Line. Trains serving the station are operated by Great Northern.
The station is an important stop on the commuter line between King's Cross and Cambridge as the majority of semi-fast services between London and Cambridge stop at Royston - one exception being the 'Cambridge Cruiser' fast services from London. It is also the last station before Cambridge with platforms capable of handling 12-car trains. Therefore, it is used by many commuters, not only from Royston but also from smaller stations north of Royston who transfer from stopping services to faster trains at the station.
The station was opened by the Royston and Hitchin Railway in October 1850 as its initial eastern terminus. The line was subsequently extended as far as Shepreth the following year and through to Cambridge by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1852. The latter company took out a lease on the Royston company from then until 1866 and ran trains between Cambridge and the Great Northern Railway's main line junction at Hitchin until its lease expired. Thereafter the GNR took over and began running through trains from Cambridge to Kings Cross from 1 April 1866.
Electrification:
The railway from London King's Cross to Royston was electrified in 1978. Class 312 electric trains from King's Cross terminated at Royston; passengers wishing to travel to Cambridge had to change to a connecting diesel multiple unit train. From 1988 the whole line from London to Cambridge was electrified, ending the need to change trains at Royston. Full services commenced on 2 May 1988. Network SouthEast commissioned the electrification from Royston to Cambridge as a 'fill-in' scheme to link the wired routes either side (the ex-ECR main line electrification north of Bishops Stortford had been inaugurated the previous year).
Infrastructure:
Both Up and Down lines through Royston station are signalled bi-directionally, meaning that Royston is the only place on the Cambridge Line where a train can overtake one ahead of it. The Signalling is controlled by Kings Cross Power Signal Box.
The station is located on a long sweeping curve, reducing the line speed in the Up direction to 50 mph, and a differential speed of 50/65 mph in the Down direction.
Services:
Great Northern serves Royston on services up to London King's Cross and down to Cambridge. Trains are formed of either Class 700, Class 387 or Class 365 electric multiple units.
Trains to London King's Cross are either slow or semi-fast, departing at approximately half-hour intervals. Slow services call at all major stations to King's Cross (not inner suburban-only stations), taking 62 minutes to arrive in London at an average of 43.5 mph (70.0 km/h) Semi-fast services call at Baldock, Letchworth, Hitchin, Stevenage and Finsbury Park. During early morning peak-time there are some fast services (including a few that start or finish here) running non-stop or stopping only at Letchworth, reaching London in under 40 minutes.
Two trains per hour also operate towards Cambridge. Slow trains call at all stations and take 26 minutes to arrive at Cambridge, operating at an average of 30.1 mph (48.4 km/h). Fast trains run non-stop to Cambridge, taking 17 minutes at an average of 46.0 mph (74.0 km/h). Some Cambridge-bound services continue to Ely and King's Lynn.
From the completion of the Thameslink Programme in 2018 it is proposed that there will be a 2tph to Maidstone East service.
CAMBRIDGE CITY TOUR
This video features the idyllic and quintessential town of Cambridge in Ontario, Canada. Canada is a big country where people come from countries all over the globe. It is a diverse and multicultural society where people live in a peaceful and harmonious co-existence. Respect for each person's differences and tolerance to each cultural diversity is the common ground for global understanding.
Cambridgeshire - Highfield Farm Touring Park Tour
A look around the site and facilities at HIghfield Farm Touring Park in Comberton near Cambridge.
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Daffodils blooming in Foxton, Cambridgeshire
Driving into Foxton in South Cambridgeshire is a wonderful line of yellow daffodils welcoming you into the village. It made me smile
date: 7th April 2015
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