| Peterborough |
| Peterborough is an industrialized city
to the north-west of Cambridge. It has
leisure facilities that Cambridge doesn't,
including a sailing lake and an ice rink.
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| Huntingdon |
| Huntingdon is at the far end of a nightmarish
stretch of the A14, on the way to Stilton,
where the famous cheese was never made.
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| The Fens |
| The Fens are an area of low-lying land
to the north of Cambridge, surrounding the
city of Ely and containing several small towns
including Soham. Their soil is rich and peaty,
and the story of their drainage is an epic one
now lasting many centuries. Although they are
mostly quite dry now, a small area of wet fenland
is preserved at Wicken
Fen as a nature reserve.
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| St. Ives |
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St. Ives is a small market town to the west of Cambridge.
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| Bedford |
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Bedford is the county town of the next county to our west.
Like Peterborough, it has a sailing lake.
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| Newmarket |
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Newmarket is most famous for breeding and racing horses.
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| Royston |
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Royston is a pleasant small town in Hertfordshire.
It is well known to Cambridge people for the nearby
area of chalkland called Therfield Heath (often referred
to incorrectly as Royston Heath).
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| Saffron Walden |
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Saffron Walden is a picturesque Essex town with the remains
of a castle. It is worryingly near Stansted Airport.
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| Heidelberg |
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Heidelberg
(in Germany) is one of our twinned cities.
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| London |
