If you have a car, or fancy a local bus ride, other places well worth a visit outside Cambridge include:

• Wimpole Hall and Home Farm owned by the National Trust – the farm is especially popular with children
• Anglesey Abbey, another National Trust house with fine gardens
• Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Europe’s premier aviation museum that holds special air shows several times a year
• The Shuttleworth Collection, further away, but another fascinating aviation museum
• Ely Cathedral
• Oliver Cromwell Visitors Centre
• Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve