Welcome to Visit Grantchester Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Grantchester


Visit Grantchester PlacesVisit Grantchester places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Grantchester places to visit. A unique way to experience Grantchester’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Grantchester as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Grantchester is a village and civil parish on the River Cam or Granta in South Cambridgeshire. It lies about two miles (3 km) south of Cambridge. When you visit Grantchester, Walkfo brings Grantchester places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Grantchester Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Grantchester


Visit Grantchester – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

Grantchester photo With 205 audio plaques & Grantchester places for you to explore in the Grantchester area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Grantchester places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Grantchester with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Grantchester PlacesYou can visit Grantchester places with Walkfo Grantchester to hear history at Grantchester’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Grantchester has 205 places to visit in our interactive Grantchester map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Grantchester, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Grantchester places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Grantchester & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 205 audio facts unique to Grantchester places in an interactive Grantchester map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Grantchester Places Map
205 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

  Grantchester historic spots

  Grantchester tourist destinations

  Grantchester plaques

  Grantchester geographic features

Walkfo Grantchester tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Grantchester

  

Best Grantchester places to visit


Grantchester has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Grantchester’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Grantchester’s information audio spots:

Grantchester photo Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology is one of the teaching and research departments at the University of Cambridge. It conducts original research at the interfaces between engineering, chemistry, biology and physics.
Grantchester photo University of Cambridge Sports Centre
The University of Cambridge Sports Centre is the University’s main sporting facility. It is located in the centre of Cambridge’s main sports facilities. The centre is home to the Cambridge University Football Club.
Grantchester photo Institute for Manufacturing
Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) integrates research and education with practical application in industry. All areas of the IfM work closely with industry. Research is undertaken in collaboration with companies.
Grantchester photo Cavendish Laboratory
The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics. It is named after the British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish. 30 Cavendish researchers have won Nobel Prizes.
Grantchester photo Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
The Department of Computer Science and Technology, formerly the Computer Laboratory, is the computer science department of the University of Cambridge. As of 2007 it employed 35 academic staff, 25 support staff, 35 affiliated research staff, and about 155 research students.
Grantchester photo William Gates Building, Cambridge
The William Gates Building is a square building that houses the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. It was named after William H. Gates Sr., the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Construction on the building began in 1999 and was completed in 2001 at a cost of £20 million.
Grantchester photo Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
The Institute of Astronomy is the largest of the three astronomy departments in the University of Cambridge. Around 180 academics, postdocs, visitors and assistant staff work at the department. The Kavli Institute for Cosmology is also located on the department site.
Grantchester photo Cambridge Observatory
Cambridge Observatory is an astronomical observatory at the University of Cambridge. It was established in 1823 and is now part of the Institute of Astronomy. There are a set of optical telescopes at the site on the Madingley Road in Cambridge. The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory is a few kilometres southwest.
Grantchester photo Møller Centre
The Møller Institute is a leadership and professional development Institute at Churchill College. It was founded with a gift of approximately £10 million to Churchill College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.
Grantchester photo Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill Archives Centre (CAC) is one of the largest repositories in the UK for the preservation and study of modern personal papers. It is best known for housing the papers of Sir Winston Churchill, the private papers of Baroness Thatcher, and a wide range of political, diplomatic, military and scientific collections.

Visit Grantchester plaques


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Grantchester has 38 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Grantchester plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Grantchester using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Grantchester plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.