Devonshire Arms
A corner local on Devonshire Road, run by Individual Pubs.
Cambridge's most varied high street, and the Victorian streets built around it.
Petersfield is the district on the city-centre side of the railway line, along the north-western half of Mill Road; Romsey lies on the other side. Mill Road itself is a busy road of independent businesses, churches and a mosque, running south-east from the edge of Parker's Piece. It began as a country lane, named for a windmill, and was transformed when the railway arrived in the mid-nineteenth century: The Mill Road area's population is recorded as 252 in 1801 and 25,091 by 1891.
Two colleges, Gonville and Caius and Corpus Christi, developed Petersfield, which explains why its streets carry the names of their fellows. Residents were often university employees, which made this the "gown" side of the divide. A workhouse opened here in 1838 and later became a maternity hospital and then sheltered housing.
Today the draw is the independent trade on Mill Road, plus a few landmarks of different kinds. The David Parr House is a terraced house on Gwydir Street preserved in the Arts and Crafts style; the decorative artist David Parr lived at 186 Gwydir Street from 1886 to 1927. The Cambridge Blue is a pub nearby, and Arjuna Wholefoods is an independent wholefood shop in the neighbourhood.
On the first Saturday in December the road hosts the Mill Road Winter Fair, which attracted at least 20,000 people in 2009.
Mill Road is easily walked from the centre; crossing the railway bridge on Mill Road takes you into Romsey. Part of the road, including the bridge, closes to traffic during the Winter Fair. Anglia Ruskin University and Hughes Hall lie at the north-western end, and the cricket ground at Fenner's sits behind the latter.
A corner local on Devonshire Road, run by Individual Pubs.
A Hills Road pub with en-suite rooms, known for its full English breakfast.
A courtyard pub where scientists drafted the Panton Principles on open data.
A Gwydir Street pub for burgers, beer and banter, with a garden room.
A freehouse for real ale, cider and Belgian beer in the streets behind Mill Road.
A backstreet pub named after a one-issue temperance newspaper.
A working-class Victorian decorator's terraced home, painted by hand in the Arts and Crafts style.
A workers' co-operative wholefood shop on Mill Road, trading from the same late Victorian terrace since 1970.
Cambridge's covered shopping mall on the east side of the centre, opened in 1984.
A college rooted in religious dissent and teacher training, with a Victorian Gothic hall and 25 acres of grounds on Hills Road.
A Victorian teacher-training college for women, now a mature-student college beside Fenner's cricket ground.
A Reform Jewish congregation worshipping in a purpose-built synagogue on Auckland Road since 2015.
A live music and arts venue by the railway station, built in 1990 on the old Cattle Market site.
A 16-hectare university garden, on its present site since 1831, with over 8,000 plant species and a lake.
A bronze soldier walking home up Hills Road, unveiled in 1922 and known as The Homecoming.
A Grade II listed Church of England parish church, consecrated in 1839 and facing south rather than east.
A stretch of the inner ring road facing Parker's Piece, with Parkside Pools and the cricket ground at Fenner's behind.
Cambridge's long east-side street of independent shops, churches, a mosque and a winter fair.
A Grade II listed cemetery of 1848 off Mill Road, with notable Cambridge graves and a City Wildlife Site.
A Hills Road parish church that grew from a daughter church of 1892, with services each Sunday and a choir.
A Grade II listed church of 1841 by Ambrose Poynter, remembered for the tongue-lashing it received from the Cambridge Camden Society.
A state sixth form college on Hills Road, open since 1974, with an adult education programme alongside A levels.
A co-educational independent day school on St Paul's Road, with nursery, prep and senior sections for ages 1 to 16.
A Catholic-tradition girls' school for ages 3 to 18, open in Cambridge since 1898.
A non-denominational community primary on Norfolk Street, opened in 1963 on a site with schools since 1836.
A family of independent schools for ages 1 to 18, grown from a girls' school founded in 1881.
A daytime cafe attached to a Cambridge cookery and wine school, open Wednesday to Sunday.
A rescue cat cafe on Mill Road, visited by booked one-hour session.
A sandwich-led cafe on Mill Road, with a second branch on Green Street.
A small-batch brewery off Mill Road where you drink among the tanks.
A family-run Mill Road restaurant serving North African and Levantine food since 1997.
An independent modern Italian restaurant on Regent Street, with a piano bar and rooftop terrace.
A small French-influenced bistro on Mill Road working to a seasonal prix fixe menu.
A Mill Road restaurant and fish butchery built on fish from independent day boats.
A Bengal cafe and restaurant on Hills Road that tells its food through stories.
A Lebanese and Middle Eastern restaurant on Mill Road with a modern take on the feast.
An independent, family-owned steakhouse on Hills Road, open since 2013.
A traditional Jordanian restaurant on Hills Road, with food made for sharing.
Indian fine dining on Newmarket Road, open since 2014.
A pub and restaurant on Regent Street in a building that began as a bicycle shop.
A neighbourhood restaurant on Mill Road serving brunch, pizza and cocktails.
A tapas restaurant on Mill Road, with house-made sangria.
A small Mill Road restaurant serving a plant-led tasting menu.
A Mill Road bakery selling pastries, toasties and sweet treats, with its main bakehouse out at Fenstanton.
A French bakery and patisserie that began in the middle of Cambridge in 2017.
A dual carriageway on the inner ring road, home to Anglia Ruskin's Cambridge campus and the round Crown Court.
A multi-screen cinema at Cambridge Leisure Park, bought by independent chain The Light in 2015.
A Cambridge grammar school founded in 1615, now a co-educational day school for ages 3 to 18.
A Hills Road pub that outlasted a demolition approval and a decade of protest, and closed in October 2021.
A Georgian theatre of 1816 on Newmarket Road that became the experimental Cambridge Festival Theatre of 1926-35.