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Grantchester and the Orchard

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.

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

Mill Way, Grantchester, two miles south of the city

The Orchard Tea Garden, 47 Mill Way, Grantchester, Cambridge CB3 9ND
  • Outdoors
  • Cosy

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.

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

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  • Tall conifers and a bright red autumn tree in the Botanic Garden, lit by low sun

    Cambridge University Botanic Garden

    Bateman Street, south of the city centre

    1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE
    • Outdoors
    • Romantic

    Wander forty acres of gardens and glasshouses, from the lake and the rock garden to the winter garden's bright stems.

    Why it's a good date: Peaceful at any time of year, and the glasshouses are a warm place to duck into when it's cold. Bring a book and find a bench.

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    Photo: temporalata, CC BY-SA 2.0 (resized)

  • The Eagle's RAF bar ceiling, covered in names and numbers written in candle smoke and lipstick

    The Eagle

    Bene't Street, city centre

    Bene't Street, Cambridge CB2 3QN
    • Bar
    • Rain-proof ☔
    • Cosy
    • Culture

    Have a pint in the old coaching inn where Crick and Watson announced they'd found the structure of DNA, and look up at the RAF bar's ceiling, covered in wartime airmen's graffiti.

    Why it's a good date: History you can sit in, with plenty to talk about. Go in the afternoon for a seat in the RAF bar.

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    Photo: Verbcatcher, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped and resized)

  • Fitzbillies' dark-painted shopfront with gold lettering and bunting in the window on Trumpington Street

    Fitzbillies

    Trumpington Street, near the Fitzwilliam

    52a Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RG
    • Café
    • Rain-proof ☔
    • Cosy

    Share a famously sticky Chelsea bun with a coffee at the bakery and café on Trumpington Street.

    Why it's a good date: A small, sweet Cambridge ritual. Get there early before the best buns go, or take a box away for the river.

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

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