Below are our current selection of tour packages. Remember we can tailor these tours to meet your specific needs. For customised tours please get in touch here.
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Cambridge Full Day Tour - Facts and Anecdotes
We would like to make this a memorable day on your visit to Cambridge, with a programme packed full of facts and anecdotes, bringing the visits alive in an entertaining way as we travel in space and time across the historic city centre.
Discover some home truths, like how Cambridge, a market town in the Fens became a university centre of excellence by sheer chance!
And how a king dealt a blow to the heart of the town's vital river trade, creating a divide between town and gown that survives to this day!
Hear the story of how scholars, always dressed in gowns, became disliked by the townsfolk and see for yourselves how the wealthy Tudor colleges built high walls to protect scholars and keep the envious townsfolk out.
Cambridge has some unique accolades: The oldest printing and publishing house in the country and the only annual boat race, with rival Oxford.
Relish different viewpoints, strolling along the Backs of the river Cam, watching the punts or climbing up Great St. Mary's Tower for a birds eye view of the old city.
View the famous colleges associated with so many Cambridge luminaries, from Newton and Darwin to Stephen Hawking and discover why in the last century, many were jovially dubbed. the atoms and apostles of the city.
Cambridge Half Day Tour - Town & Gown Highlights
Even if time is short, we can still capture the essence of this historic city. As we walk, let us paint you a picture: a mini masterclass in architecture, viewing historic milestones from the last 800 years right up to the 21st century.
We shall animate these with stories of town and gown, that is how life in the colleges differed from that encountered on the streets of Cambridge. We hope to educate, entertain and make your visit to this remarkable ancient city a highly memorable one!
Cambridge Half Day Tour - Treasures that showcase the redeeming power of art.
Growing up, my passion has always been art, in particular painting, so becoming an art historian and being privileged to work at the National Gallery in London nearly 40 years ago was a dream come true! I have since written and lectured at other major UK collections and acted as front of house presenter at archaeology displays at sites in France when I lived abroad, so I am most at home inside a museum or in sight of art !
Any opportunity to talk about and share the superlative art collections in Cambridge with you is a no-brainer. I consider art to be an integral part of life and still enjoy discovering new artists and artefacts at exhibitions and when I travel away from home. Cambridge is blessed with a dozen museums, ranging from primitive surgical instruments to uplifting works of art. My part time work teaching adults at the Fitzwilliam Museum and other City art museums offers me plenty of opportunities for this due to the rolling displays and shows curated there plus of course the permanent art collections ranging from Egyptian antiquity, Greek and Roman art, ceramics, a fan gallery, painting, sculpture, from medieval through to contemporary art.
Grantchester, a Stone's Throw from Cambridge – Past and Present
The unassuming village of Grantchester, just 2 miles south of the City centre, has much to reveal… How and why did this village become such a magnet to Cambridge academics, coming to play a key role in the life of fellows and students?
Find out how a tradition was born at the Orchard Tea Rooms, God’s little acre, 120 years ago and who were among the group of Cambridge luminaries who met there.
Newmarket Tour - Discovering the Royal Connections
Discover Newmarket: Respice Finem
The National Horse Racing Museum
Mention Cambridge and the ancient University springs to mind, but Newmarket in Suffolk, a mere 30 minutes drive away, is quite another story! The town motto, Respice Finem, meaning aim for the finish, sits right at the heart of it’s glowing achievements.
How did the sport of Kings, a royal pastime, grow into a multi million pound global industry with Newmarket at its HQ? Every taste is catered for there and if you are visiting Cambridge, why not make this trip? It is far more than just a museum ! Where else can you meet and greet equine veterans and learn about their careers on the track as well as their welfare in retirement today ? Fancy being a jockey ? Then the racing simulator is for you.
You can immerse yourself in the classic sporting art collection, housed in the surviving 17th century Palace House whilst hearing and seeing the window where Charles II looked out to where his favoured mistress, Nelly Gwyn, lived in a cottage, his companion to local cock pit fights.
Delve into an exhibit on the underground world of betting and bribery with local heroes of the infamous kind, proving that crime can pay! Get up close to an original copy of the Anatomy of the horse by Stubbs of 1779 and discover the science of horse locomotion and a famous Canadian who captured it for the world to see on film.
Ely Tour - The Ship of the Fens
The story of Ely Cathedral and the town that grew up around it. Enjoy a short stroll along the river Ouse, once the life blood of the locals and hear how the superabundant supply of eels paid for more than just the rent!
Discover how the waterlogged Isle of Elig became a centre for the new Christian religion sweeping England with the foundation of an Abbey by an Anglo Saxon princess.
Hear the tale of woe and destruction which threatened its survival repeatedly, as we
travel back in time some 1000 years, walking through the jaw dropping, lofty spaces of the cathedral.
Delight in the unprecedented scale of the Lady Chapel, celebrating the cult of
the Virgin Mary. Completed in the year of the Black Death, it is compelling not just
for its sheer beauty but also for the presiding legacy of terrible loss dealt by the Iconoclast reformers.
View some chapels dedicated to the many bishops at Ely and discover their vital
scholarly links with Cambridge colleges and their role in the University.
