Cambridge is a city and county town in Cambridgeshire, England; Visit Cambridge, the city's visitor guide, says its architecture was shaped primarily by the University of Cambridge. XTOUR maps King's College Chapel, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle's Yard, the University Botanic Garden and the Mathematical Bridge in the city, and keeps IWM Duxford, which lies outside it, apart.
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United Kingdom
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Church · Cambridgeshire, England
King's College Chapel is the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, on King's Parade, Cambridge; the college's history page says its foundation stone was laid by Henry VI in 1446 and its main structure was complete by 1515.
Bridge · Queens' College, Cambridgeshire, England
The Mathematical Bridge is the wooden footbridge over the River Cam at Queens' College, Cambridge; the college's history site says it was designed in 1748 by William Etheridge, built in 1749 by James Essex the Younger and rebuilt to the same design in 1905.
Museum · Cambridgeshire, England
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the University of Cambridge's museum of art and antiquities on Trumpington Street, Cambridge, with a collection that ranges from ancient Egyptian artefacts to modern and contemporary art.
Gallery · Cambridgeshire, England
Kettle's Yard is the University of Cambridge's modern and contemporary art gallery on Castle Street, Cambridge: a house that was the home of Jim and Helen Ede, with their collection of 20th-century art, and galleries for changing exhibitions.
Park · Cambridgeshire, England
Cambridge University Botanic Garden is the University of Cambridge's botanic garden in Cambridge, with entrances at Brookside Gate on Trumpington Road and Station Road Gate on Hills Road.
Museum · Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England
IWM Duxford is the Imperial War Museums' museum on Duxford Airfield in South Cambridgeshire, south of Cambridge, with historic aircraft and exhibitions in its hangars.
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The United Kingdom is Great Britain plus Northern Ireland, Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales, and England is one of the UK's four countries. This article sets out those definitions from UK legislation and government pages, shows where the difference turns up on food labels, number plates, heritage bodies and maps, and says how XTOUR files its UK destinations.
London, in England, and Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, come first; Bath, York, Oxford, Cambridge and Canterbury are smaller English bases, each built around a World Heritage site, a cathedral or a university; Cardiff, Glasgow, Inverness, Belfast and Liverpool cover Wales, the rest of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north-west of England. This guide says what each base is for, which well-known sights are reached from a base rather than in it, and what XTOUR does not state.
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