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Hidden Cambridge Walking Tour: The Quirky and The Unusual

By Hidden Cambridge
10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$46 per adult

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • Discover the quirkiest and most unusual sites and stories in Cambridge.
  • Join a qualified guide for an intriguing and entertaining walking tour.
  • Explore some parts of Cambridge that, we believe, no other tours go to.
  • Stroll through the city at a leisurely pace and feel free to ask questions.

Activity location

    • Cambridge
    • Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Guildhall Place, Market Hill, Cambridge CB2 3QJ, UK | Meet in front of the Guildhall, by the market place in the city centre
    • Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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Hidden Cambridge Walking Tour: The Quirky and The Unusual

  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m
    1h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 12:30 PM
Price details
NZ$45.64 x 1 AdultNZ$45.64
Total
Price is NZ$45.64

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    A tour of the quirky and unusual side of Cambridge.
  • What's includedWhat's included
    A tour with a qualified Cambridge Green Badge Guide who is happy to take your questions.
  • What's includedWhat's included
    A tour at a leisurely pace at a number of places not on the usual tour route.
  • What's includedWhat's included
    A chance at the end of the tour to ask your experienced guide (over 10 years) about other places to visit, other activities etc.
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Stories related to Gonville and Caius College, Trinity College, St John's College, Magdalene College, as well as, tiny doors, gargoyles, death-defying leaps and long-awaited revenge

Know before you book

  • Not suitable for: People with mobility impairments

What you can expect

You will discover numerous fascinating sites and stories in the centre of Cambridge that even most “locals” don't know about.

Since around 2018, every 7 or 8 months or so, tiny doors have been appearing around Cambridge. What on earth is going on? Not only will you find out but you will visit two of the most-loved ones.

Gargoyles – after nearly killing one professor – , have returned in force to one particular college, where, just maybe, we will be able to identify “Colin” and “Sue”.

You’ll find out about a very well-known architect who turned his hand to lamp post design in Cambridge. You won’t find these anywhere else in the world!

Students in Cambridge have regularly got up to crazy antics, but thank goodness nothing went wrong when Michael Kosterlitz had a go.

For one professor at Trinity College, you’ll never imagine what he discovered on his way into the college one day. Even more surprising, it’s still there!

Your flower knowledge and medieval French will be tested at St John’s.

On Bridge Street we’ll uncover the great injustice done to Thorsteinn Viggosson.

It’s never a good idea to make the colleges angry. They don’t forget. Magdalene College waited 415 years but then got their revenge!

For Harry Potter fans, I’m afraid you won’t find any filming locations in Cambridge, but we do have one rather unusual link.

If that's not enough, we'll even throw in one or two more surprises.

Location

Activity location

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    • Cambridge
    • Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Guildhall Place, Market Hill, Cambridge CB2 3QJ, UK | Meet in front of the Guildhall, by the market place in the city centre
    • Cambridge, England, United Kingdom