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All Saints church

All Saints' pale stone spire is a Cambridge landmark opposite Jesus College. It was built in the 1860s to the designs of 19th-century architect G.F. Bodley. Nearly every surface is painted, stencilled, or gilded; flowers cover the walls. William Morris and Ford Madox Brown designed light-emitting stained-glass windows. Churches Conservation Trust maintains the daily-open structure. All Saints' pale stone spire is a Cambridge landmark opposite Jesus College. It was built in the 1860s by the famous Victorian architect G.F. Bodley. The wooden door hides a colourful explosion. William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Ford Madox Brown designed the windows.

The Corpus Clock

The Corpus Clock is one of Cambridge's most distinctive public monuments since its 2008 opening. It's a beautiful and disturbing timepiece. Dr John C Taylor OBE FREng (m1959) invented, designed, and donated it. He built the Clock with Huxley Bertram. The clock's gold face and ripples allude to the Big Bang, the central impact that created the universe and could be considered the beginning of time. The clock is atop a monster called Chronophage, which devours each minute as it passes. It evolved from John Harrison's 18th-century grasshopper escapement. The Corpus Clock appears difficult to read because it lacks hands and digital numbers. The innermost LED ring displays the hours, minutes, and seconds. At the hour, chains shake and a hammer hits a wooden coffin. The clock's Latin inscription, mundus transit et concupiscentia eius, means "the world and its desires pass away." The pendulum is inscribed with "Joh. Sartor Monan Inv. MMVIII" Joh. is Johannes, Sartor is the mediaeval Latin word for tailor, Monanensis is the Isle of Man, Inv. is invenit, a verb that means discovered/made/brought to fruition, and MMVIII is 2008. Isle of Man's John Taylor accomplished this in 2008. The Clock stands on the entrance to a Natwest Bank, a Horace Francis-designed 1866 building that housed the London County Bank.

Market Square

Cambridge's historic market square has been home to merchants since the middle ages. Street food, books, vinyl, CDs, and DVDs are for sale Monday through Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm. Clothing, jewellery, bags Fruits, vegetables, and fresh fish are nutrient-dense. Garden plants, used bikes There's more than phones and accessories. The market square hosts a food, arts, and crafts market on Sundays from 10 am to 4 pm. Local farmers sell organic produce at the market, along with works by local artists, craftsmen, potters, sculptors, and photographers.

The Mathematical Bridge

William Etheridge (1709–1766) designed and built the bridge in 1748. (1722–84). After that, it was repaired in 1866 and rebuilt in 1905. The red-brick riverside building, built in 1460, is Cambridge's oldest riverside building. The President's Lodge now uses it. It's a mid-18th-century engineering triumph. He died in 1744. Wooden planks span a 50-foot river. The horizontal piece that spans the river is actually six shorter pieces of wood joined end-to-end. The wooden version of a voussoir arch bridge is compressed by gravity. Strong abutments must balance compressive forces at a voussoir bridge's springing point. Bending weakens wood (think about how easy it is to break a match by bending it). This bridge's side trusses don't bend much or at all. The triangulation in the side trusses gives them strength without making them too heavy and keeps the joints between the arch's segments from bending. Because the sides aren't filled in, side winds do less damage. Only the walkway has cross-bracing. With this design, a side truss could have a piece of wood replaced without affecting its neighbours or dismantling the whole bridge. No one has actually tried this.

WREN Library

The Wren Library is a famous Cambridge college library. There are books and old buildings. Sir Christopher Wren built the library. He designed or built several Cambridge colleges. His other Cambridge works include Emmanuel College's chapel and the Wren (Kitchen) bridge at St. John's (although he did not build this). This library has Cambridge's most valuable and famous books. It has Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica and Shakespeare's first two folios. It has A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh drawings.

Castle Hill in Cambridge

Castle Hill is an important part of Cambridge's history, despite having no ruins. Duroliponte, an Iron Age hill fort that became a Roman town, stood here. From Castle Mound, you can see the town's rooftops and surrounding countryside. Clear skies reveal Ely Cathedral in the north. William I built Cambridge Castle in 1068 during Hereward the Wake's rebellion. Matilda's forces attempted a siege during the Anarchy, but failed. Later, French forces seized the castle during the First Barons' War. A large part of the building was rebuilt in the late 1300s, but it fell into disrepair. Castle Hill was inhabited during the Bronze and Iron Ages, when a mediaeval fort was built. Ermine Street was built by the Romans in 43 AD to connect London to the north. Rug Cleaning Near Me.Through western Cambridgeshire. After the Boudica rebellion in AD 60, the military built a fort on Castle Hill to protect Cambridge. Fort Akeman connected to Ermine Street. It was rebuilt in the 70s AD, but the military left and it became Duroliponte, a town near a road and the River Cam. By the fourth century AD, Danish and German raiders used the river to reach Rome by boat. Protective limestone walls were built. When the Romans left Cambridgeshire in 500 AD, the Angles moved in. Before Mercia took over in the eighth century AD, the county was made up of tribes. Cambridge was ruled by the Mercians until 875, when Viking commander Guthrum fortified it. In 905, King Edward the Elder of Wessex conquered Cambridgeshire. Cambridge was fortified by 921. (town). These earth and wood ramparts, backed by a ditch, surrounded an elliptical area with the River Cam on the west side. Cambridge was one of Eastern England's largest towns by the 10th century.

Central Mosque Cambridge

Cambridge Central Mosque is England's first purpose-built and eco-friendly mosque. It promotes best practises in faith, community development, social cohesion, and interfaith dialogue to serve the Muslim community in the UK and beyond. Cambridge Central Mosque opened April 24. Julia Barfield says a mosque's appearance isn't set. In Egypt, Andalusia, Turkey, Indonesia, and the Arabian peninsula, mosques reflect the local aesthetic. In China, it could be pavilions with pagoda-like roofs; in sub-Saharan Africa, mud bricks or rammed earth. It may have one or more domes or a flat roof supported by columns. Stone, wood, or concrete could be used. In Britain, the first mosques were built in the late 19th century, in Liverpool and Woking, Surrey. The most common approach, driven by the need to serve as many people as possible within limited budgets, is to build a plain box decorated with motifs referring to the main country of origin of the congregations – Ottoman for Turks and Cypriots, Moghul for people from the subcontinent – or from which the majority of the funding came.

Duxford's Imperial War Museum

Duxford Aerodrome was built during WWI. It was a first-generation RAF base. Duxford was one of many new RFC airfields built in 1917. It remained open after the war, unlike many other RAF airfields. Starting in 1924, it became a fighter station and did well for 37 years. In 1938, No. 19 Squadron at RAF Duxford was the first to receive the Supermarine Spitfire. In August, RAF Duxford received its first Spitfire. In June 1940, Germany occupied Belgium, Holland, and France. Germany's next goal was Britain. RAF Duxford was prepared. The Battle of Britain was then fought in the air. It defended Britain's airspace. On September 15, 1940, "Battle of Britain Day," its squadrons flew twice to stop Luftwaffe attacks on London. The station launched test and trial units. The RAF learned how its new plane would perform in battle before giving it to the USAAF. The 78th Fighter Group moved to RAF Duxford in April 1943. Their main job was to protect Eighth Air Force bombers during dangerous daylight raids on Germany. Every available 78th Fighter Group Thunderbolt attacked targets behind the Normandy beachheads on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Duxford became an RAF base after WWII. Its last operational phase began. With jet fighters like the Gloster Meteor, Hawker Hunter, and Gloster Javelin, Britain could shoot down Soviet bombers if the Cold War "heated up." Duxford's time as an RAF base was ending because it was no longer needed for defence. It was too far south and inland, and supersonic fighter upgrades couldn't be justified. In July 1961, the last flight left RAF Duxford, and for the next 15 years, its fate was unknown. IWM needed a place to store, restore, and display exhibits too large for its London headquarters. This was allowed on the airfield. Cambridgeshire County Council, Imperial War Museum, and Duxford Aviation Society revitalised the aerodrome. IWM Duxford is Europe's aviation museum. This museum is unique because of its historic site, world-class exhibits, and world-famous air shows.

Cambridge University Botanic Gardens

CUBG has over 8,000 plant species from around the world. Teaching and research benefit. Plants, horticultural knowledge, and facilities are available to researchers and teachers. The Garden has been a beautiful place to learn and enjoy since it began. Beautiful landscapes teach about plant diversity. Cambridge University's first Botanic Garden opened in 1762 in the city's New Museums Site. It grew medical school plants. John Henslow was 29 when he became university botanist in 1825. Botany was struggling at the time. The city's Botanic Garden was in bad shape after 30 years without a lecture. Henslow's drive and political skill persuaded the University to move the Botanic Garden to a larger site so serious experimental botany could join Cambridge's natural science studies in the early 1800s. The extra acres would allow researchers to study the new tree species being discovered in western North America. Botanic gardens wouldn't be seen as drug plant nurseries for medical students. Henslow suggested using the Garden to study plants. Trinity Hall gave the University 16 hectares of land one mile south of the city centre in 1831, but legal issues delayed construction. The University only paid to develop the more expensive western half of the land in 1846. Andrew Murray helped Henslow plan the garden. Murray plans a winding path around the Garden. The Main Walk, lined with majestic conifers, divides the path east-west. A belt of same-family trees was planted outside the perimeter path. A U-shaped lake and herbaceous systematics beds were north of the Main Walk. This plan created today's Grade II* heritage landscape. The style is "Gardenesque," which combines plants and landscapes.