The Pocket Cambridge

Whether you’re keen to punt on the River Cam, cycle, as so many residents do, have a picnic in a park, or simply let your mind roam, let your journey start here.

Cambridge is famous for its 800-year-old university, the fourth oldest in the world. It is also home to the Fitzwilliam Museum’s half a million works of art and a 21-metre fin whale skeleton, in the Museum of Zoology, while IWM Duxford is Europe’s largest air museum.

Summer brings May Week of student balls and garden parties, while Christmas Eve is time for carols with King’s College Choir. The city also gave rise to rock group Pink Floyd.

Enjoy a pint in The Eagle pub, where Crick and Watson announced their discovery of DNA. Or visit Parker’s Piece, where football was invented.

Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 121 Cambridge scholars since 1904, while others have indulged in pranks, such as hoisting an Austin Seven car onto the roof of Senate House.