Historic Cambridge

St John's covered Gothic Revival bridge over the Cam, completed in 1831.

A Grade II listed English Baroque university building of 1899 by E. S. Prior, with lettering by Eric Gill.

A Grade II listed station at the end of Station Road, opened in 1845 and the busiest in the East of England.

A Grade II listed real tennis court of 1866 on Grange Road, one of the few left in the United Kingdom.

The Norman castle mound on Castle Hill, where Cambridge's earliest settlement grew.

A Grade II listed Methodist church of 1914 on Castle Street, with a 1929 Binns organ and a chapel history back to 1823.

A Grade II listed house of 1839 and its parkland, home to the Cambridge Folk Festival.

A complete fourteenth-century dwelling in Chesterton, built for the agents of an Italian abbey.

A Grade II listed Church of England parish church, consecrated in 1839 and facing south rather than east.

A round lawn, Milton's mulberry trees and a Modernist 'Typewriter' behind a Tudor gate.

A three-arched stone bridge of 1639-40 at Clare College, often named the oldest bridge still in use in Cambridge.

The second-oldest surviving college, with Cambridge's oldest bridge and a view of King's.

Founded by the town's guilds in 1352, with a 14th-century court and the Parker Library.

A Grade II listed neoclassical council building of 1913-14 on Hobson Street, now student accommodation for Christ's College.

A neo-classical college of 1800 around a great open lawn, with a door from Number 10.

A former Dominican friary with a Wren chapel, a friars' pool and free daily entry.

A Cambridge bakery-cafe since 1920, known for its Chelsea buns.

A timber-framed riverside pub on Midsummer Common, with parts dating from the 16th century.

The first women's college in Cambridge, set in red-brick Waterhouse buildings and fifty acres of grounds.

Cambridge's oldest surviving boathouse, built in 1882 and Grade II listed, home to Cambridge University Boat Club's gym and offices.

A 1348 foundation refounded in 1557, with three symbolic gates and the oldest purpose-built college chapel still in use.

The Grade II* parish church of Grantchester, with 12th-century parts, a Norman font and a screen role in a TV drama.

A Grade II* garden cemetery of 1843 off Histon Road, tied to the landscape designer John Claudius Loudon.

A Grade II* city-centre church, long associated with the evangelical preacher Charles Simeon.

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 former nunnery with the oldest university building still in use and a walled 'Chimney' entrance.

Henry VI's college, with its Chapel, its choir and the lawn running down to the Backs.

A Grade I listed stone bridge of 1819, designed by William Wilkins, on the Backs beside King's College.

The choir school of King's College, a co-educational prep school on West Road with roots in 1441.

A Grade II* parish church on Trumpington Street that was Peterhouse's chapel until 1632.

A riverside college founded for Benedictine monks, home of Samuel Pepys's library and a Stirling Prize-winning new building.

A timber footbridge at Queens' College that looks like an arch but is built entirely from straight beams.

A Grade II listed Gothic Revival school chapel of 1906, with oak fittings, fourteen windows and a 1920 war memorial.

Common land on the river Cam, site of a fair chartered in 1211 and a fireworks night.

A Grade II listed cemetery of 1848 off Mill Road, with notable Cambridge graves and a City Wildlife Site.

Cambridge's archaeology and world-cultures museum, free to enter, with Pacific, Torres Strait and local collections.

Everyday life in Cambridge and the Fens since 1700, in a Grade II listed 16th-century former inn.

The University's first science site in the middle of town, where several landmark discoveries were made and two museums now open to visitors.

A women's college of Queen Anne red brick and long gardens, whose gardens are open to visitors on most days.

A riverside house of 1793 where the Darwin family lived, now the heart of Darwin College.

The first combined college boathouse in Cambridge, a Grade II listed building of 1958 on the River Cam.

A Grade I Gothic Revival Catholic church of 1885-90 at Hills Road, with a 65-metre spire.

A courtyard pub where scientists drafted the Panton Principles on open data.

A flat green square at the edge of the centre, tied to the early rules of association football.

Cambridge's third-oldest college, with its first Wren chapel and a plaster-ceilinged Old Library.

Cambridge's oldest college, with a 13th-century hall, a Laudian chapel and a 1940s modernist court.

A cast-iron lamppost of 1894 at the crossing of Parker's Piece, with a famously odd name.

A house of around 1200 within St John's College, described as the oldest secular building in Cambridge.

A Victorian memorial college in golden Ketton stone and red brick, with large lawns and a Wren-linked dining hall.

A Portland-stone hall of the 1720s where Cambridge degrees are conferred, with a roof-top prank in its history.

A small college with a friary's cellars, a rococo hall and Cromwell's connection.

A Grade II listed city-centre parish church of 1842-43, home to the memorial to Captain Cook's family.

An open three-sided court on Trumpington Street, and the stables behind 'Hobson's choice'.

A Grade II* medieval parish church on Bridge Street, with a mayor's tombstone of 1329 and an Anglo-Catholic past.

A college of Catholic origins for mature and graduate students, with a Grade II listed Gothic Revival chapel.

A hidden Grade II* church by the Guildhall, sometimes called the Cradle of the Reformation.

A co-educational prep day school on Trumpington Road for ages 3 to 13, founded around 1884.

A Grade II* Victorian church of 1875 near Castle Mound, on a site founded in 1092 and open daily to visitors.

A Tudor college on both banks of the Cam, with a gate, a hall and the Bridge of Sighs.

A Catholic-tradition girls' school for ages 3 to 18, open in Cambridge since 1898.

A Grade II listed church of 1841 by Ambrose Poynter, remembered for the tongue-lashing it received from the Cambridge Camden Society.

A small medieval church by Kettle's Yard, no longer a parish church and cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust.

A one-room King Street pub, widely thought to be the smallest in Cambridge, reopened in 2026.

The riverside college lawns and bridges behind the Cambridge colleges, listed as a Grade I historic park.

A Grade II listed Bridge Street pub whose own history stretches back to 1752.

A former hotel of 1828 on Trumpington Street, once a wartime base for American servicemen.

A British steakhouse in a listed corner building opposite King's College Chapel.

A small, Grade II listed King Street pub with an unaltered late-Victorian interior.

A working-class Victorian decorator's terraced home, painted by hand in the Arts and Crafts style.

A 17th-century coaching inn where the structure of DNA was announced over lunch.

A backstreet pub named after a one-issue temperance newspaper.

A Methodist-founded co-educational day and boarding school on Trumpington Road, open since 1875.

A Magdalene Street inn dating from 1608, with a past as a gin palace and a few ghost stories.

Henry VIII's merged foundation, with the Great Gate, Great Court and Wren Library.

A triple-arched stone bridge of 1764-65 carrying Trinity's Avenue across the Cam to the Fellows' Garden.

A Gothic Revival Methodist church of 1913 beside Christ's Pieces, listed Grade II and with Sunday worship.

Scientific instruments, models and apparatus from the medieval period to today, on Free School Lane.

Christopher Wren's library at the end of Nevile's Court, finished in 1695, with Newton's notes and the Pooh manuscripts on the shelves.

An outdoor market on Market Hill that has traded in the same spot since Saxon times, open every day of the year bar three.

The University of Cambridge's art and antiquities museum, in a Grade I listed neoclassical building with free entry.

A collector's home turned University gallery, kept as its owners left it, beside a modern exhibition space.

Samuel Pepys's own library, kept in his own bookcases at Magdalene College, currently closed for refurbishment.

A craft-beer house in a listed 1830 building once lived in by E. M. Forster.

A complete medieval college across the river, with the Mathematical Bridge.

A family-run modern British restaurant in Trumpington's former Coach and Horses.

A tea garden in an orchard at Grantchester, serving students and visitors since 1897.

A Cambridge grammar school founded in 1615, now a co-educational day school for ages 3 to 18.

A 1350 foundation on the river with a chained library and an award-winning music building.