Day-time in Cambridge
City Heritage
Since the Romans settled in Cambridge in the first century AD, the city has been an important market town for the region and when 1200 years later a group of students fled riots in Oxford and settled in Cambridge, its twin role as major international seat of learning was established. Now its famous Colleges, many set gracefully along the river Cam, are home to over 17,000 students. Kings College Chapel is a familiar image all over the world.
For a relatively small city, Cambridge is rich in museums, ancient churches and historical tradition. Visit the Fitzwilliam Museum, with its outstanding picture collection, or the Round Church, one of only 4 round churches in Britain. Only a few miles away you’ll find the Imperial War Museum’s Air Museum. City heritage also includes an outstanding record of scientific and artistic achievements – Newton, Darwin, Wordsworth, Milton, Ian McKellan, John Cleese, Emma Thompson and Zadie Smith were all educated here.