I was very lucky to be able to go on a tour with Cambridge Ghost Tours.
Cambridge is a medieval city with great stories about ghosts and the place to hear them is with Cambridge Ghost Tours. Our tour guides, Fenella and Tom had really great personalities which made this tour so enjoyable. I have been on previous ghost tours in Cambridge. In my opinion, this was much more exciting. They were not just giving you a tour of places, pointing out places that ghosts had been reported about anyone can do that. Instead they tell in such a way that you don't want the tour to end. This is child friendly and they can curtail the information to suit the youngest person. The youngest on our tour was 8 years old. But of course that is a decision that you will have to make. Also, as an American I find some tours presume you know who or what they are talking about. This was not the case with Cambridge Ghost Tours. I would be confident to say that even if you do not know who they are talking about, they explain it so you will. I would hands down recommend Cambridge Ghost Tours as a different way to see the city (and the best ghost tour in town!). They also have special Halloween events- if you are brave enough! The tour happens rain or shine so dress appropriately! It rained during our tour but it added to the ambiance. |
Perhaps you have been walking in front of the Fitzwilliam Museum on Trumpington Street and noticed the 'gutter' and maybe there was running water in it. If you have wondered what it is or the monument on the corner of Lenfield Road and Trumpington Road. This Hobson's Conduit and it was very important to the people of Cambridge.
The River Cam (the river that circles Cambridge) was not safe enough to drink from so Thomas Hobson built this between 1610 and 1614 to bring fresh water from Great Shelford (a small town south of Cambridge). The monument that you see was part of the fountain that used to be in the market square but was moved after a fire. The market used to be filled with buildings and wasn't open as seen today. The conduit used to run down Trumpington Street, down to the Market place (it no longer does since the construction of Lion Yard in 1960), St Andrews Street (covered when making room for sidewalks) and out to Parkers Piece (to a pond that was filled in in 1827). |