Resources for Cambridge Parents
With a strong emphasis on resources that have WWW pages
The Tourist Office (behind the Guildhall) and public libraries
have many pamphlets. Also
- Museums and Talks
- Pubs and Eating places
- Cambridge Blue on Gwydir St (has an interesting garden)
- The University Centre
("Grad Pad") - for university staff/students. Child-friendly
- The Carlton Arms - children welcome in the non-smoking lounge;
children's menu; family games and puzzles; comfy couches as well as
tables; huge beer garden for nice weather plus heated marquee tent for
rest of the year.
A bit out of the way for those walking around City Centre, but the C1 bus
stops right by the pub (Debbie Grossman)
- Shops
- Activity Worlds
- Spy Masters (Bar Hill)
- Funky Funhouse (Mercers Row)
- Ely (Planet Zoom - Strikes Bowl Multiplex - near the train station)
- Bury (near the train station)
- Haverhill Leisure Centre (Ehringshausen Way, phone 01440 702548)
- Eat 'n' Play (St Neots, with 10 pin bowling)
- Windmills and Watermills
- Wild Animals
- Walks
- Pick-your-own
- Orchard Tea Gardens, Grantchester
- University Botanic Gardens (Bateman Street) - especially the tropical greenhouses. Phone 01223 - 336265.
- Wimpole Hall (the farm and the grounds). Phone 207257.
- Audley End (just for the 1.5 mile miniature railway). Xmas specials in December.
- Miniature Train Rides on Cambridge model engineering society railway
at Fulbrooke Road (off Grantchester Road). 2nd Sunday, May-October, 2-5.30pm.
- Stansted Mountfitchet (norman village recreation - gory in parts).
- West Stow Anglo Saxon village (by Bury St Edmonds).
- Royston Cave -
Cave under Melbourn Street with medieval carvings - for older children (see the movie - Quicktime). There's a park nearby
- Hinchingbrooke Country Park
See the Cambridge/London train timetables and National Express coach timetables. The coach to London is cheap for children (sometimes it's nothing) and has
convenient drop-off points.
- Milton Country Park
- Gt Shelford (there's a river at the end)
- Cherry Hinton Park (paddling pools, lake, playground)
- Lammas Land (playground, paddling pool, nature walk)
- Jesus Green (outside pool, lock, playground)
- Coleridge Recreation Ground (Coleridge Road, Cambridge) has a
paddling pool.
- Tomino (language learning CD Roms)
Several places offer Living History. The Special Events aren't always
well advertised (see the Diary). Here are some options
Updated January 2015
Assisted by Patrick Gosling, Olivier Suard, James Matheson and Lydia Pollard.
Tim Love (tpl@eng.cam.ac.uk)
