We have produced a virtual Cambridge indexed by a variety of
schematic maps, describing the city in topics, interests and
geographical areas, each road and street having its own page with a
schematic map of the shops, colleges, pubs, museums, swimming pools
and other organizations with premises on that street, and linking to
the pages for the streets with which it connects.
The files in our virtual city use HTML tables (I'm afraid we're not
going to provide a non-table version until we do the VRML one!) -- if
you're using a browser that can't take these, you'll probably get each
page as a few paragraphs of names. We are concerned that they should
still make some kind of sense, in particular for blind users using
speech synthesizers with browsers such as www (a combination which we
hope to provide in-house here at CB1, and so will try to make the
tables make some sense if simply read out as a list of words.
| Colleges |
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Cambridge is well-known as a centre of
learning -- a reputation which it has earned
well through working as a centre of teaching.
Four universities have a presence here, along
with a federation of theological colleges and
some other higher educational institutions.
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| Cambridge University |
| Anglia Polytechnic University |
| Open University |
| The University of the Third Age |
| The Cambridge Federation of Theological Colleges |
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| Restaurants |
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Cambridge is well-provided with restaurants
and other eating-places. There is a list of reviews
available on-line.
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| Cinemas |
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Cambridge gives you a choice of 3 cinemas;
it used to have more, but the others have been
converted to various other uses.
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| The Arts Cinema |
| Cannon / MGM |
| Warner Brothers (8 screens) |
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| Recreational |
Cambridge hums with interesting activity... there
are clubs, societies and organizations for a huge range of
interests. However, for those who aren't interested in anything
interesting but just want to be part of a herd of people being
alternative in smelly places called
venues, Cambridge appears to have very little
happening. |
| Museums |
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Cambridge has many museums, some of
which are part of the University.
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| Tourism |
| Cambridge is a major centre for tourism
throughout much of the year, being at its most crowded in
the summer and its most beautiful in the winter.
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| Parker's Piece |
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| Parker's Piece is one of Cambridge's many
open spaces. It is
crossed by paths which meet at the famous Reality Checkpoint
lamp-post.
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| Shopping |
Cambridge is the major shopping town for some
distance around. The main shopping
areas are
these: |
The city
centre, swathes of which have been
specially adapted by the council for people who can't be
bothered to look before crossing the road |
The Grafton
Centre, a purpose-build shopping
area, where, as in the city centre, cyclists and
pedestrians had long co-existed without problems -- the
council are now
banning bikes
from here too as part of the dumbing-down of
the area. |
Mill Road, which
is where real people shop, and you can cycle and walk along
it too -- just like real life, but with shops
on. |
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| Publishing |
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Cambridge has long been known as a centre for
the book trade, with several publishing houses
and many bookshops.
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| Publishing houses |
| CUP |
| Chadwyck-Healey |
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| Bookshops |
| CB1 |
| Browns |
| Davids |
| Heffers |
| CUP bookshop
(on the site of the world's oldest bookshop)
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| Dillons |
| Galloway and Porter |
| Philip Lund theological books |
| SPCK (Mowbrays) |
| Wesley-Owen (Scripture Union) |
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| Mill Road |
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Mill Road is where CB1 is situated
geographically. It is a long city street
of varied content; along it and on the
warren of little back-streets connecting
with it are many small-to-medium
shops, a small-to-medium
university, some pubs,
and many houses. In London terms, it is the backbone
of Cambridge's East End, and to Americans, it is
the heart of our downtown. We have started to put
it on-line with our virtual
Mill Road. The remaining mystery... no-one knows
where the mill was from which it gets its name!
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The best we can aim to provide here is a rough indication of which
areas are in which directions from which other areas... click on the
anchor in an area to go to a page for that area, which has links to
a page for each individual road in the area.
