Cambridge Historical Walking Tour Experience

Come on a different walking tour through old Cambridge and discover the Town and colleges from the view of the townspeople through the centuries up to today
Using a 500-year-old map, fun facts and a big dollop of humour; we'll navigate all around the historic Town and through 2000 years of history to the City we live in today.

May contain: Anglo-Saxons, Fires, Beheadings, Vikings, Normans, Town vs Gown drama, Fairs, Kings, Queens, Common Land, Churches, Charters, Chancellors, Monks, Mayors, Markets and a potential grave robbery.

If you're new to Cambridge you'll come way understanding the story of the Town in a way most visitors never will.
If you think you know Cambridge, you're probably in for a surprise.

If that wasn't enough, we're a local social enterprise promoting Cambridge history, culture and sustainable tourism; your fantastic Experience Leaders are local people with lived experience of exclusion, particularly homelessness, in Cambridge.

Meeting Point

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge CB2, UK

Find us on Market Hill, in front of the Guildhall.
It's the massive building with the clock on it.
We'll be wearing white Experience Cambridge hi-viz jackets.

What's included:

• Historical Humour
• Historical Facts
• Guided walking tour of the old Town of Cambridge (aka historic town/city centre)
• A copy of a 500 year old map to hep you navigate through the Old Town of Cambridge.

What to expect:

Duration: 2 hours

Cambridge Market Square

Market Hill, , Cambridge, CB1 0SS

How did Cambridge become a town?
How was the market so important?
How was the market laid out in medieval times?

10 minutes

Great St Mary's Church (Church of England)

St. Marys Passage, King's Parade, Cambridge, CB2 3PQ

Originally St-Mary's-by-the-market, now the famous University Church, what's the story behind this building and the arrival of the scholars in Cambridge?

10 minutes

Sidney Sussex College

Sidney St., , Cambridge, CB2 3HU

Monks, monasteries, reformation, regicide, a few beheadings.. what's not to love?
[no access to college - we are old townspeople after all]

10 minutes

St, Clement's Church

Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UF

Site of the earliest church in Cambridge, dedicated to the patron saint of sailors?
[outside only]

10 minutes

Jesus Green

Victoria Avenue, Cambridge, CB5 8AL

Common land, enclosure, arrival and kingdom of the East Angles, fairs - who/what set the borders of the old town and what happened outside of them?
[also toilet and rest break]

15 minutes

Magdalene Bridge

Magdalene Street, Cambridge

Why are we called Cambridge?
And Vikings!

10 minutes

St. John's College

St. John's St., Cambridge, CB2 1TP

Cambridge joins the new Kingdom of England.
The Norman's turn up.
The Round Church is built.
The medieval public hospital and monk annoying other monks.
[Not entering the college or church - just looking form outside like the common townspeople we are]

10 minutes

Cambridge University Press Bookshop

1 Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1SZ

Old bookshops and the right to print, Dr Caius strange requests, the Senate House, fighting for space and some fun facts about King's College Chapel.

10 minutes

St Bene't's Church (Church of England)

Benet Street, Cambridge, CB2 3PT

The oldest building, Angles again, Corpus Christi College, the secret of life, the Eagle pub, end of the old town and back out into the city.
[No entry to buildings - all outside]

15 minutes