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Green tables and chairs under apple trees beside a gravel path in the Orchard Tea Garden

Grantchester and the Orchard

Mill Way, Grantchester, two miles south of the city

Address: The Orchard Tea Garden, 47 Mill Way, Grantchester, Cambridge CB3 9ND
  • Outdoors
  • Cheap and cheerful
  • Best in Spring, Summer, Autumn
  • Cosy

Walk or cycle across Grantchester Meadows beside the Cam to the Orchard Tea Garden, and have tea and scones in a deckchair under the apple trees.

Why it's a good date: The classic Cambridge afternoon, done the same way for over a hundred years. Go on a sunny day, and walk back along the river as the light goes.

Photo: Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped and resized)