Travel Information

 

Jacobean-style country house with collection of treasures, set in fine formal and informal gardens with a working watermill.
Gardens and Lode Mill
Quy Road
Lode
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB25 9EJ

Telephone: +44 (0)1223 810080

Cambridge Cathedral also called Cathedral of Ely, is the most popular visitor attraction is the county town of Cambridge. King’s College Chapel, is also very popular with visitors. Guided tours are available for booking from the Cathedrals website.

Cambridge Cathedral
Cambridgeshire

Cathedral Visitors and Events Manager Telephone: +44 (0)1353 660361

At the Cambridge Folk Museum you can learn about Cambridge peoples lives from the past, in this friendly social history museum, which is housed in a former White Horse Inn.

Cambridge Folk Museum
2/3 Castle Street
Cambridge
CB3 0AQ
Telephone: (01223) 355159

Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has the following galleries: The Clarke Gallery (World Archaeology), The Maudslay Gallery (World Anthropology) and the Andrews Gallery (Changing Exhibitions).

Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3DZ

Telephone:+44 (0)1223 333 516 (Front desk)
Telephone:+44 (0)1223 333 510 (Museum Administrator)
Fax: (01223) 333 517

Cambridge Museum of Zoology

The Museum holds collections of scientific and historical interest.

University Museum of Zoology
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB3 2EJ
United Kingdom

To make an enquiry or visit the collections in the first instance please contact the curator
Dr William Foster (01223 336615 )

Ely Catherdral is an impressive Norman Cathedral is known locally as the ‘Ship of the Fens’.

The family campsite has 20 pitches and accpets motorhomes all year round.

Fenland Camping And Caravan Park
March Road
Wimblington
Cambridgeshire
PE15 0RW
Tel: 01354 740354

The Flag Fen Bonze Age Centre is an ongoing archaeological excavations take place during the summer months. The centre houses an excellent museum displaying outstanding Bronze Age finds.

Framlingham Castle explore this fine late 12th Century castle, former home to Mary Tudor.

It is an English heritage property.
In Framlingham on B1116
Telephone: +44 (01394) 382240

This Neolithic flint mine was first excavated in the 1870’s, come to Grimes Graves and discover the conditions of Stone Age man some 4,000 years ago. It is an English Heritage property.

Hedingham Castle is well known for its Jousting Tournaments performed by The Knights of Royal England during the summer months.

Hinchingbrooke House is a former Benedictine nunnery, and home to the Cromwell family.
The house incorporates many different types of English architecture.

The former home of Jim and Helen Ede and their collection of art, which includes Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, David Jones, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Check their website for opening times and details of events and exhibitions.

Kettles Yard
Castle Street
Cambridge
CB3 0AQ

Tel (01223) 352124

You may want to take your motorhome or campervan to Little Gransden Show to support the BBC Children in Need Appeal 2007 and local charities. The organisers describe the Little Gransden Families Day Out Air & Vintage Vehicle Show as including over four hours of vintage and aerobatic flying displays, a vintage, veteran and classic vehicle rally plus numerous other attractions.

Located at Fuller’s Hill Farm near Little Gransden village in Cambridgeshire, roughly half way between Bedford and Cambridge. Access is easy via the A1 or A428 roads.

Visit the their website for more information about tickets,attractions and how to get there.
Little Gransden Air & Vintage Show

Stansted Airport is situated approximately 40 miles north-east of the city of London, close to Stevenage and Chelmsford barely away from the M11 motorway. To reach Stansted: exit the M11 at junction 8 then take the first round about sign posted for Colchester and follow the A120 to the airport through two more roundabouts.

In 1942 USAAF bomber base was built at Stansted. Subsequently Stansted experienced a frosty reception in the proposal for a civil airport. Not until the end of the 1970 oil crisis did the government green light the project and development began.

Stansted’s award winning novel terminal was unveiled in 1991. Since then, Stansted has gone from strength to strength with the evolution of cheap package tours and inexpensive budget airline flights.

Wifi Access is available at the airport and is supplied by a number of Network providers including T-Mobile, BT Openzone, The Cloud Networks and Boingo. Wireless hotspots are sign-posted within the airport. Internet desks with high speed broadband connections are even available before and after airport security.

In addition to all of the great facilities on offer at Stansted, London Stansted Airport motorhome hire allows travellers to go straight from airport to open road.

Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology

The Museum hold one of the worlds only surviving collections of casts of Greek & Roman sculpture in the world.

The Museum of Classical Archaeology
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
UK

Telephone +44 (0)1223 335153
Fax +44 (0)1223 335409

Cambridgeshire is a lovely county to explore by motorhome. Whilst in the Peterborough area, the Nene Valley Railway is a fantastic place for the whole family to enjoy. For children, or the young at heart, Nene Valley is home to Thomas the Tank Engine. Visitors can meet Thomas up close and even experience a ride with him.

For railway enthusiasts Nene Valley also has an extensive collection of locomotives from Britain and Europe. The Railway also boasts an impressive history of film and television  credits with over 150 productions being shot on location. Some of the most famous productions to be filmed on site include the James Bond hits Octopussy (1983) and Goldeneye (1995).

Nene Valley Railway Ltd
Wansford Station
Stibbington
Peterborough
PE8 6LR
Tel: 01780 784444
Fax: 01780 784440
Talking Timetable: 01780 784404
Email: nvrorg@nvr.org.uk

The museum has a wide catalogue of artifacts from Arctic Geology to the early explores such as Scott himself and Shackleton.

Scott Polar Research Institute
University of Cambridge
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 1ER
England

Telephone: (01223) 336552
(international +44 1223 336552)
Fax: 01223 336549

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

The Museum is open all year round and admission is free. The Museum has a large number of dinosaur exhibits covering ancient life, Jurassic seas, mineral gallery and local Geology.

The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
University of Cambridge
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3EQ

Telephone: (01223) 333456
Fax: (01223) 333450

Family run campsite with room for motorhomes, centrally located in Cambridgshire.

Stanford Park
Weirs Rd
Burwell
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB25 0BP
Tel: 01638 741547

The Fitzwilliam Museum houses world-class collections of works of art and antiquities spanning centuries and civilisations.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
University of Cambridge
Trumpington St
Cambridge CB2 1RB

Telephone: 01223 470474
Fax: 01223 744 788

In the Ouse Washes north east of Welney village is a mecca for the winter home of thousands of swans and ducks from northern Europe and the Arctic. Large numbers of Bewick’s and Whooper swans now over-winter here with hundreds of other birds.The floodlit evening feeding is well worth seeing if you get the chance.

Welney Wetland Centre
Hundred Foot Bank
Welney
Nr. Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
PE14 9TN

Telephone: 01353 860711

Whipple Museum

Founded in 1944 with funding from Robert Stewart Whipple, formerly of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, the Museum contains one of the most impressive existing collections in the history and philosophy of science.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RH
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)1223 330906
Fax: +44 (0)1223 334554