Cambridge is small and can be explored on foot, so expect to walk for most of your visit. There are no hills in the centre of town. Take a stroll along the Backs between Garret Hostel Lane and King's Bridge. View the beautiful gardens along the Backs by hiring a boat on the river. Don't miss Clare College Fellows Gardens and Clare Bridge. Try your hand at punting - punts can be rented by the hour from many locations on the River Cam (see links page). An alternative is to take one of the chauffeur-punts, where in half an hour the chauffeur (usually a Cambridge student) will whisk you from Silver Street Bridge to Magdalene Bridge and back again. You should get a potted history and some amusing anecdotes thrown in by your guide. Cambridge has many other places of interest; please see descriptions of activities and attractions listed below. Alternatively visit our links page for each attraction;s individual website. Things to see and do around Cambridge. King;s College Before Henry VIII, the monarchs of England focused their patronage mainly upon King's College and, lying next to it, Queens; College. Both contain some beautiful buildings. King's College chapel would do as a cathedral in most other towns. It is one of the most sublimely beautiful buildings in Cambridge. Started in 1438 and completed 100 years later it is the emblem of Cambridge. Forget the Rubens painting at the altar that is valued at £20,000,000 - look instead at the wonderful fan-vaulted ceiling, the technological marvel of its age. A guided tour is well worthwhile as is attendance at a service when the choir sings. Queens; College and the Mathematical Bridge Queens; College Master's lodge and the Mathematical Bridge. Try to visit the lodge for an open-air performance of a Shakespeare play in May Week, in June. The Mathematical Bridge was the first bridge in the world to be designed according to mathematical analysis of the forces in it. The Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum was founded in 1816 by the bequest of the VIIth Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion to the University of Cambridge and contains magnificent collections of works of art and antiquities of national and international importance. They comprise antiquities from Ancient Egypt, Sudan, Greece and Rome, Roman and Romano-Egyptian Art, Western Asiatic displays and a new gallery of Cypriot Art; applied arts, including English and European pottery and glass, furniture, clocks, fans, armour, Chinese, Japanese and Korean art, rugs and samplers; coins and medals; illuminated, literary and music manuscripts and rare printed books; paintings, including masterpieces by Simone Martini, Domenico Veneziano, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Van Dyck, Hals, Canaletto, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Constable, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne and Picasso and a fine collection of 20th century art; miniatures, drawings, watercolours and prints. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology The Museum contains large and important collections of archaeological and anthropological material from all parts of the world. The archaeological collections from all periods include significant collections from Palaeolithic Europe, Asia and Africa; Precolumbian Central and South America; early civilizations of the Mediterranean; and British archaeology. The world-renowned anthropological collections include important collections from the South Seas, West Africa and the Northwest Coast of North America; historic collections from the 18th century; and extensive photographic collections from the 19th and 20th centuries. Cambridge University Library The University Library contains one of the greatest collections of books and manuscripts in the world. It provides a number of services, some of which are only available to members of the University. Exhibitions: The Library exhibitions centre hosts a series of changing exhibitions, which run for approximately six months at a time, allowing the riches of its collections to be shown to the general public. Museum of Classical Archaeology The 'Ark' houses one of the largest collections of plaster casts of Greek and Roman statues in the world - over 600 casts of almost all the major pieces of classical sculpture. The collection was gathered together in the late nineteenth century to provide material for studying ancient art in Cambridge (the Victorians called it their 'archaeological laboratory'). The museum is part of the Faculty of Classics and is still used for University teaching; it also welcomes visitors and (pre-booked) school parties. Whipple Museum of the History of Science The Whipple Museum is a pre-eminent collection of scientific instruments and models, dating from the Middle Ages to the present. Included in this outstanding collection are microscopes and telescopes, sundials, early slide rules, pocket electronic calculators, laboratory equipment and teaching and demonstration apparatus. The Main Gallery of the Museum is housed in a large hall with Elizabethan hammer-beam roof-trusses, built in 1618 as the first Cambridge Free School. Other galleries include discover which displays a wide array of scientific instruments, the new Victorian Parlour, with plenty of handling activities for children, and the Reserve Gallery, which is open during school holidays. The Museum is part of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and plays an important role in the Department's teaching and research. The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences One of the University's many hidden treasures, and actually its oldest museum, the Sedgwick is packed full of fossils with more than 1 million in its collection. These range from the earliest forms of life from more than 3000 million years ago, to the wildlife that roamed the Fens less than 150,000 years ago. The museum was built in memory of Adam Sedgwick and started with Dr John Woodward's bequest of his fossil collection in 1728 (still on display in its original cabinets). Displays include a gallery of minerals and gemstones, the world's largest spider, rocks collected by Charles Darwin on the 'Voyage of the Beagle', dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Triassic, and fossils from the local area including a hippopotamus from the nearby Barrington gravel pits. University Museum of Zoology The University Museum of Zoology, reopened in October 2001 after refurbishment, displays a great range of recent and fossil animals, emphasising the structural diversity and evolutionary relationships among the animal kingdom. The collections were accumulated from 1814 onwards, and include many specimens collected by Charles Darwin. They are now housed in a spacious modern building on two floors. The lower gallery presents a striking array of mammals, many as mounted skeletons that are appreciated as much by art students as biologists. This gallery also houses a near-comprehensive display of British birds. The upper gallery houses systematic displays of the major animal groups, exhibits that trace the origin and evolution of land vertebrates (not just dinosaurs!), and a notable collection of beautiful shells. To find the museum, look for the spectacular whale skeleton, hung above the entrance and visible through the archway from Downing Street. Kettle's Yard Kettle's Yard is the former home of Jim and Helen Ede and houses the fine collection of art, from the early part of this century, which they gave to the University. Artists represented include Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, David Jones, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. There is a separate gallery for exhibitions of contemporary art, which are widely advertised and detailed on the website. A lively programme of lectures, workshops and discussion groups accompanies each exhibition. Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden was founded in 1846 by John Stevens Henslow, Professor of Botany, best remembered for inspiring his pupil Charles Darwin with a love of natural history. The Garden comprises 4...

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Single £52.00 : Twin £72.00 : Double £72.00 : Double en suite £82.00. Rooms are cleaned on a daily basis and are provided with duck down duvets, bath sheet, hand towels, tea and coffee facilities, hand basin and thermostatic electric controlled radiators. A hairdryer and iron are available on request. All room prices include continental breakfast. The visitors; car park is charged at £2.00 per day. Credit cards incur a 3% surcharge.

By Road Coach information is available. From the South. Exit the M11 at junction 11 and turn right towards Cambridge. Continue for 4 miles until you come to 2 mini roundabouts. Go straight over the first and right at the second. Go straight over the next set of traffic lights and turn left after 50 yards. This is Regent Terrace. We are number 7. From the North. Exit the M11 at junction 12 and turn left towards Cambridge. Continue to the bottom of Barton Rd. It now dog-legs into Queens Rd. Continue until you come to a roundabout and turn right (Fen Causeway). Go to the end, there are 2 mini roundabouts, turn left at the first and right at the second (Lensfield Rd). Go straight over the next set of traffic lights and turn left after 50 yards. This is Regent Terrace. We are number 7. By Rail Trains from King;s Cross and Liverpool St run every 30 minutes to and from Cambridge. There is a good taxi service from the station and should cost no more than £3.00. The Guest House is no more than 1/4 mile. Train timetables can be found. By Air Stansted Airport is reached via junction 8 of the M11 (see;by road from the South;) and not more than 35 minutes away. Cambridge Airport is 10 minutes away.

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