Cambridge: the city of history, literary and romance.
Cambridge is located about 60 miles (100 Km) from London, which distance is smiliar to Oxford from London. Oxford lies to the west but Cambridge to the north.
Cambridge is well known as a university town. Its university was founded in the eleventh century by disaffected academics from Oxford University. The oldest building from that time is in St John's College but the oldest surviving college is Peterhouse. Peterhouse is the first college in Cambridge in 1284 founded by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.
Until now there are thirty-one colleges to form the University of Cambridge; many of them are architectural gems, founded by Kings, Queens, bishops, noblemen and wealthy patrons. Such as Churchill College (1960) is a National and Commonwealth memorial to the great war time Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, but the latest college Robinson College was founded in 1977 by a local millionaire.
Nevertheless, Cambridge was important long before the university existed. Full history of Cambridge city can be seen here.
Cambridge is no longer a sleepy university cum market town. It is a bustling city of over 109,000 people in the vanguard of the high-technology revolution. It is a city with many good shops, international conferences, museums and galleries, with a wide variety of restaurants and exciting fetivals each summer.
Cambridge is small but has the best of all worlds. Cambridge is a city to be enjoyed for all Seasons!
