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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Great Shelford

  

Great Shelford Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Great Shelford

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Great Shelford history

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Manors and families

Several great estates shared the two Shelfords, notably that of the de Freville family, whose manor house survives (and was resold in 2005) at Little Shelford. But all appear to have generally had absentee landlords who sold copyhold lands and generally let others on long renewable leases. Several Yeoman families of note, the Deans, Howling, and Tunwell families, farmed.

Historical geography

Great Shelford was colonised by academics of the University of Cambridge in Victorian times. The core of the modern village lies between the sites of two Anglo-Saxon settlements.

You can visit Great Shelford places with Walkfo Great Shelford to hear history at Great Shelford’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Great Shelford has 48 places to visit in our interactive Great Shelford 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 Great Shelford, 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 Great Shelford places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Great Shelford & the surrounding areas.

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48 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Great Shelford places to visit

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

Gog Magog Golf Club Gog Magog Golf Club is located in Shelford Bottom, Cambridgeshire, England. It is located about 4 miles south of Cambridge.

Brasley Bridge Brasley Bridge or Trumpington Bridge is the first river Cam bridge on its upstream in Cambridge. It is located near Grantchester Road and connects Grantchester and Trumpington.

Bourn Brook, Cambridgeshire Bourn Brook is a minor tributary of the River Cam in Cambridgeshire, England. It is a small stream that flows from Bournbrook to the River Bourn.

Trumpington bed burial The Trumpington bed burial is an early Anglo-Saxon burial of a young woman, dating to the mid-7th century. The burial is significant both as a rare example of a bed burial, and because of the ornate gold pectoral cross inlaid with garnets that was found in the grave.

Green Man, Trumpington The Green Man is a Grade II listed public house in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire. It is located in the town of Trumpington and is Grade II-listed.

Great Kneighton Great Kneighton is a large housing development and residential area in the southern part of the City of Cambridge district of Cambridgeshire. It will ultimately consist of almost 2,300 homes. Together with nearby development Trumpington Meadows, it forms part of a southern fringe expansion of the city.

Strangeways Research Laboratory Strangeways Research Laboratory was founded in 1905 as the Cambridge Research Hospital and acquired its current name in 1928. It was historically funded primarily by the Medical Research Council. It has since focused on the study of genetic epidemiology.

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is a research institute in Cambridge, England, involved in the revolution in molecular biology which occurred in the 1950–60s. Since then it has remained a major medical research laboratory with a much broader focus. A new replacement building constructed close by to the original site on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus was opened in May 2013.

MRC Cancer Unit The Medical Research Council Cancer Unit was established in 2001. It is based within the Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, which is situated on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre (WBIC) is a UK Biomedical Imaging Centre, located at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, England. It is a division of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Cambridge. The Centre opened in 1996 with a GE PET scanner.

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