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Cambridge, just a short drive from our caravan site in Great Chesterford. Plus other things to see north of Great Chesterford.
	Cambridge www.visitcambridge.org Cambridge Tourist Information Centre Tel: 01223 464732 Just 10 miles north of our caravan site, Cambridge is a city for all seasons and for all interests and tastes. Easily accessible on the southern side of Cambridge are the University Botanic Gardens and Fitzwilliam Museum. From our caravan site take the A1301 to Cambridge. Or you can catch the train to Cambridge - the caravan site is about a mile from Great Chesterford railway station.

	University of Cambridge Botanic Gardens www.botanic.cam.ac.uk Tel: 01223 336265 This tranquil 40 acre garden offers year round interest to visitors including Rock Garden, Lake, Glasshouses, Winter Garden, Woodland Walk, and nine National Collections. Only five minutes walk from the railway station - you can go by rail from Great Chesterford.

	Fitzwilliam Museum (Trumpington Street, Cambridge) www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk Tel 01223 332900 The art museum of the University of Cambridge with magnificent collections of works of art and antiquities of national and international importance. Just 5 minutes walk from the Botanic Gardens.


	Duxford Imperial War Museum www.iwm.org.uk Tel 01223 835 000 Phone or visit website for opening hours. Duxford retains its wartime atmosphere and, as many of its aeroplanes still fly, you might even see one take to the air during a visit. From our caravan site take the A1301 towards Cambridge, then turn right on the A505 - it's near the junction of the A505 and M11 (junct 10).

	Wimpole Hall www.wimpole.org The 2500 acre Wimpole Estate, situated eight miles south west of Cambridge, offers visitors the chance to visit: a house built mainly in the 18th Century; landscaped park; gardens and Home Farm. The park is open all year dawn to dusk. The Hall, farm and gardens - telephone (01223) 206000 for opening hours.

	Fowlmere (RSPB Reserve) www.rspb.org.uk Tel: 01763 208978 7 miles south of Cambridge between Fowlmere and Melbourn. Fowlmere's reedbeds and pools are fed by natural chalk springs and a chalk stream runs through the reserve. Special birds, include kingfishers and water rails, breeding sedge, reed and grasshopper warblers and a roost of corn buntings. Open at all times.


	Shepreth Wildlife Park www.sheprethwildlifepark.co.uk Booking line: 01763 262226 Lots of animals from bugs to tigers. Children's play areas. Just off the A10 between Cambridge & Royston (follow signs on the A10 for Willers Mill Wildlife Park (its former name).

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