Cambridge Landmarks

St John's covered Gothic Revival bridge over the Cam, completed in 1831.

The city council's seat on Market Hill, a 1939 Neo-Georgian hall on a site that has served the town since the 1220s.

A Grade II listed English Baroque university building of 1899 by E. S. Prior, with lettering by Eric Gill.

A Grade II listed station at the end of Station Road, opened in 1845 and the busiest in the East of England.

A 16-hectare university garden, on its present site since 1831, with over 8,000 plant species and a lake.

The university's main research library, a legal-deposit giant under a brick tower visible across the city.

A Grade II listed real tennis court of 1866 on Grange Road, one of the few left in the United Kingdom.

A bronze soldier walking home up Hills Road, unveiled in 1922 and known as The Homecoming.

The Norman castle mound on Castle Hill, where Cambridge's earliest settlement grew.

A Grade II listed house of 1839 and its parkland, home to the Cambridge Folk Festival.

A complete fourteenth-century dwelling in Chesterton, built for the agents of an Italian abbey.

A compact Victorian park of flower beds and trees, bought by the town in 1886.

A three-arched stone bridge of 1639-40 at Clare College, often named the oldest bridge still in use in Cambridge.

A 49-hectare local nature reserve of old grassland on the eastern side of the city.

A gold-faced clock with no hands, driven by a sculpted insect that appears to devour each second.

A Grade II listed neoclassical council building of 1913-14 on Hobson Street, now student accommodation for Christ's College.

A public foot and cycle bridge at the end of Garret Hostel Lane, one of three that link the centre to the Backs.

Cambridge's oldest surviving boathouse, built in 1882 and Grade II listed, home to Cambridge University Boat Club's gym and offices.

River meadows linking Newnham to Grantchester, used for walking, picnics and the classic punt-to-the-pub trip.

A Grade II* garden cemetery of 1843 off Histon Road, tied to the landscape designer John Claudius Loudon.

A riverside park north of Jesus College, with a 1920s-style lido and an annual beer festival.

The only lock within the city, built in 1836, with a Victorian footbridge alongside.

A Grade I listed stone bridge of 1819, designed by William Wilkins, on the Backs beside King's College.

A Grade II listed brick-and-metal lecture theatre on the Sidgwick Site, big enough for 500 and used for the Darwin College Lecture Series.

A timber footbridge at Queens' College that looks like an arch but is built entirely from straight beams.

Common land on the river Cam, site of a fair chartered in 1211 and a fireworks night.

A Grade II listed cemetery of 1848 off Mill Road, with notable Cambridge graves and a City Wildlife Site.

The University's first science site in the middle of town, where several landmark discoveries were made and two museums now open to visitors.

A riverside house of 1793 where the Darwin family lived, now the heart of Darwin College.

Chalk springs that fed Hobson's Conduit, the main water supply of Cambridge for over 250 years.

The first combined college boathouse in Cambridge, a Grade II listed building of 1958 on the River Cam.

A flat green square at the edge of the centre, tied to the early rules of association football.

A cast-iron lamppost of 1894 at the crossing of Parker's Piece, with a famously odd name.

A house of around 1200 within St John's College, described as the oldest secular building in Cambridge.

A Portland-stone hall of the 1720s where Cambridge degrees are conferred, with a roof-top prank in its history.

A 1959 concrete river crossing designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, which replaced a cast-iron predecessor.

The riverside college lawns and bridges behind the Cambridge colleges, listed as a Grade I historic park.

A former hotel of 1828 on Trumpington Street, once a wartime base for American servicemen.

A triple-arched stone bridge of 1764-65 carrying Trinity's Avenue across the Cam to the Fellows' Garden.

A Portland stone cross by Eric Gill, unveiled in 1921 in the centre of Trumpington village.

An eight-storey Aalto-influenced tower of 1963-64 inside the grounds of Peterhouse, listed Grade II.

A small riverside pasture on the Cam, declared a local nature reserve in 2005.

Two flood-meadow commons on either side of an arm of the Cam, managed together as a local nature reserve.