Riverside Cambridge

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

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

River meadows linking Newnham to Grantchester, used for walking, picnics and the classic punt-to-the-pub trip.

A riverside park north of Jesus College, with a 1920s-style lido and an annual beer festival.

The only lock within the city, built in 1836, with a Victorian footbridge alongside.

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

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

A Victorian riverside house on Midsummer Common, serving surprise set menus.

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 1959 concrete river crossing designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, which replaced a cast-iron predecessor.

A riverside pub on Silver Street, with views of the Mathematical Bridge.

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

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

A waterside pub whose beer garden looks out over Mill Pond.

A listed riverside pub with real ales on the banks of the Cam.

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

A riverside pub on Thompson's Lane with views across Jesus Green.

An independent riverside cafe bar on Quayside, from morning coffee to evening cocktails.

A small-batch brewery off Mill Road where you drink among the tanks.

A graduate college on the Cam, built around the Darwin family home, with islands, a millpond and a lecture series.

A small riverside pasture on the Cam, declared a local nature reserve in 2005.

A riverside restaurant in The Watermill, with a restored mill wheel and a charcoal oven.

Two flood-meadow commons on either side of an arm of the Cam, managed together as a local nature reserve.

A pumping-station engineer's house on the Cam that serves beer and pizza.

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