The Botanic Gardens at Cambridge University

Over 8,000 plant species from all over the world are in the collection of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden (CUBG). This helps with both research and teaching. Researchers and teachers can use the Garden's facilities, plants, and knowledge of horticulture. But since it began, the Garden has also been a beautiful place where everyone can learn and enjoy themselves. It has a number of beautiful landscapes where people can learn about the drama of plant diversity. In 1762, Cambridge University opened its first Botanic Garden in the middle of the city on what is now called the New Museums Site. It grew plants that medical school students learned from. In 1825, John Henslow was 29 years old when he became the University's Chair of Botany. Botany was at a very low point at that time. The city's Botanic Garden was in bad shape because it had been 30 years since the last lecture. Henslow's drive and political skill persuaded the University that the Botanic Garden needed to move to a much larger site so that serious experimental botany could take its place as natural science studies grew at Cambridge in the early 1800s. Carpet cleaning With the extra acres, the exciting new tree species that were being found in western North America at the time could be grown and studied. Botanic gardens wouldn't just be seen as places where medical students learn about how to grow drugs. Henslow thought that this Garden should be used to study the plants themselves. In 1831, Trinity Hall gave the University a 16-hectare piece of land one mile south of the city centre, but it couldn't be built on right away because of legal issues. But people didn't start planting until 1846, and the University only paid to develop the western half of the land because it cost more. Andrew Murray, the first Garden Curator, worked with Henslow to plan the garden. Murray's plan calls for a path that goes all the way around the Garden and is full of twists and turns. The Main Walk, which is made up of tall, stately coniferous trees, cuts the path in half from east to west. A belt of trees from the same family was planted around the edge of the path. To the north of the Main Walk was a U-shaped lake, and to the south was a complex set of herbaceous systematics beds. This plan led to the Grade II* heritage landscape that we see today. The design is in the "Gardenesque" style of the time, which uses both individual plants and carefully put-together landscapes.

The Corpus Clock

Since its opening in 2008, the Corpus Clock has been one of Cambridge's most famous public landmarks, loved by both locals and visitors. It is a one-of-a-kind way to tell time that is both hypnotically beautiful and very scary. Dr. John C. Taylor, OBE, FREng, who died in 1959, thought of it, made it, and gave it to Corpus Christi College. He worked with Huxley Bertram, an engineering company in the area, to build the Clock. The face of the clock is made of pure gold, and the ripples around it are a reference to the Big Bang, the event that started the universe and could be thought of as the start of time. The clock is on top of a very strange monster called the Chronophage, whose name means "time-eater" because it eats each passing minute with a snap of its jaws. It comes from a grasshopper, which is the name a clockmaker named John Harrison gave to a strictly functional escapement he made in the 1700s. Since the Corpus Clock doesn't have hands or digital numbers, it seems hard to figure out what time it is at first. But if you look closely, you'll see three rings of LEDs, with the hours, minutes, and seconds shown on the innermost ring. When the hour comes, there are no bells, only the sound of chains shaking and a hammer hitting a wooden coffin. The words "the world and its desires pass away" written in Latin under the clock show that time goes by and we all die. "Joh. Sartor Monan Inv. MMVIII" is written in Latin on the pendulum. This means "Joh. Sartor Monan Inv. MMVIII." Joh. is the name Johannes, Sartor is the mediaeval Latin word for tailor, Monanensis is the Isle of Man, Inv. is the verb invenit, which can mean discovered, made, or brought to fruition, and MMVIII is the year 2008. John Taylor from the Isle of Man did this in 2008. The Clock stands on what used to be the entrance to a Natwest Bank. The London County Bank was housed in a building designed by Horace Francis in 1866.

Market Square

Cambridge is known for its many markets, and merchants have been setting up shop in the city's historic market square since the Middle Ages. At the stalls, which are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Sunday, you can buy things like street food, books, vinyl, CDs, and DVDs. Things like clothes, jewellery, and purses Fruits, vegetables, and fresh fish are examples of foods that are high in nutrients. There are used bikes for sale Garden plants There is a lot more than just cell phones and their accessories. On Sundays from 10 am to 4 pm, there is a busy food, arts, and crafts market in the market square. Some of the best artists, craftsmen, potters, sculptors, and photographers in the area sell their work at the market. They also sell organic food grown by local farmers.

The Mathematical Bridge

In 1748, the bridge was designed by William Etheridge (1709–1766), and in 1749, James Essex the Younger built it. (1722–84). After that, it was fixed in 1866, and the same design was used to build it again in 1905. The red-brick building on the right side of the picture is the riverside building. It was built around 1460 and is the oldest building on the river in Cambridge. It is part of the President's Lodge now.   The design comes from the middle of the 18th century and is a small feat of engineering. James King, who died in 1744, made it. Several short pieces of wood are used to cross a 50-foot river. For example, the horizontal piece that seems to cross the whole river is actually made of six shorter pieces of wood that are joined end-to-end. The design is a wooden version of a voussoir arch bridge, where each part is held in a compressed state by the force of gravity on the whole structure: For a voussoir bridge to work, it needs strong abutments to balance the compressive forces at the arch's springing point. Bending wood makes it weak (think about how easy it is to break a match by bending it). The timbers in the side trusses of this bridge don't have to bend much or at all: Most of the force in the timbers next to the arch comes from simple compression, which is a very strong state for wood (think of how hard it is to break a match by pressing its ends together without bending them). The triangulation in the side trusses gives them strength without making them too heavy, and it keeps the joints between the arch's segments from bending. Because the sides aren't filled in, side winds don't hurt the building as much. Under the walkway is the only place where the beams cross. With this design, it was said that if a side truss needed a new piece of wood, that piece could be taken out and replaced without affecting its neighbours or having to take the whole bridge apart. This has never been done in the real world.

Wren Library

The Wren Library is one of the most well-known and old college libraries in Cambridge. You should go there if you like books, old buildings, or both. Sir Christopher Wren, a well-known British stonemason and architect, built the library. It is one of the buildings that he designed or built at the Cambridge colleges. Two more of his works in Cambridge are the chapel at Emmanuel College and the Wren (Kitchen) bridge at St. John's (although he did not build this). The most valuable and well-known books in all of Cambridge are in this library. It has Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica in its first edition and the first two folios of Shakespeare's works. It also has the first drawings that A.A. Milne made of Winnie the Pooh.

Castle Hill in Cambridge, England

Castle Hill is a very important part of Cambridge's history, even though there are no ruins there. The hill fort of Duroliponte, which was built in the Iron Age and later became a Roman town, stood here. If you go to the top of the Castle Mound, you can see a wide view of the town's rooftops and the countryside around it. In the north, if the sky is clear, you can see Ely Cathedral. During Hereward the Wake's rebellion in 1068, William I built Cambridge Castle to keep the area safe. Matilda's forces tried to take it by siege during the Anarchy, but they failed. Later, during the First Barons' War, the castle was taken over by French forces. In the late 1300s, a large part of the building was rebuilt, but it was not taken care of and soon fell into disrepair. People lived on Castle Hill during the Bronze and Iron Ages. In the Middle Ages, a fort was built there. After the Romans took over Britain in 43 AD, the army built Ermine Street as a main way to get from London to the north. It went through the middle of western Cambridgeshire. This path went around Cambridge, but after the Boudica rebellion in AD 60, the military wanted to keep the area safe, so they built a fort on Castle Hill. Akeman Street led to Ermine Street from the fort. It was rebuilt in the 70s AD, but the military left and it became a town called Duroliponte, which did well because it was near a road and the River Cam. By the 4th century AD, it was hard for the Roman military to deal with Danish and German raiders who came by boat and used the river to get to the town. To protect the area, walls made of limestone were built. At the start of the fifth century AD, when the Roman army left Cambridgeshire, the Angles moved in. Before Mercia took over at the end of the eighth century AD, different tribes lived in the county. The Mercians were in charge of Cambridge until 875, when the Viking commander Guthrum moved in, made it part of the Danelaw, and fortified it. But King Edward the Elder of Wessex attacked Cambridgeshire in the year 905 and took control of it. By the year 921, Cambridge was a well-defended town (town). These defences, which may have used the same line as the Roman defences before them, were an earth and wood rampart backed by a ditch that surrounded an elliptical area with the River Cam on the west side. By the middle of the 10th century, Cambridge was one of the biggest towns in Eastern England.

Central mosque Cambridge

Cambridge Central Mosque is the first mosque in Cambridge, England, that was built with that purpose in mind. It is also the first eco-friendly mosque in all of Europe. Its goal is to help the Muslim community in the UK and other places by promoting best practises in faith, community development, social cohesion, and dialogue between religions. The Cambridge Central Mosque opened to the public on April 24, 2019. Julia Barfield, an architect, says that a mosque doesn't have a set look. It depends on where you are. In Egypt, Andalusia, Turkey, Indonesia, and the Arabian peninsula, where Muslims need a place to pray, the architecture reflects the local style. In China, it might be a group of pavilions with roofs that look like pagodas. In sub-Saharan Africa, it might be made of mud bricks or rammed earth. It could have one dome, several domes, or a flat roof held up by many columns. It could be made of concrete, stone, or wood. In Britain, the first mosques were built in the late 1800s. One was made from an old terrace in Liverpool, and another was built from scratch in Woking, Surrey. Still, it's not clear what the typical style of a British mosque might be. The most common approach, often driven by the need to serve as many people as possible with limited budgets, is to build a plain box that is then decorated with motifs from 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.

The All Saints Church

All Saints' stands in the middle of Cambridge, right next to the gates of Jesus College. It is a well-known city landmark because of its pale stone spire. It was built in the 1860s based on plans by the famous architect G.F. Bodley of the 1800s. It is a masterpiece of Victorian art and architecture. Inside, almost every surface is painted, stencilled, or gilded, and there are a lot of flowers on the walls. There are stained-glass windows that let light in that were made by well-known Arts and Crafts artists like William Morris and Ford Madox Brown. The Churches Conservation Trust takes care of the building, which people can visit every day. All Saints' stands in the middle of Cambridge, right next to the gates of Jesus College. It is a well-known city landmark because of its pale stone spire. It was constructed in the 1860s according to the designs of the renowned nineteenth-century architect G.F. Bodley is a masterpiece of Victorian art and architecture. Behind the wooden door is an explosion of colour and pattern that is very striking. The stained-glass windows were made by top Arts and Crafts artists like William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Ford Madox Brown.

The Imperial War Museum in Duxford.

During World War I, the Duxford aerodrome was built. It was one of the first bases used by the Royal Air Force. In 1917, the Royal Flying Corps grew, and Duxford was one of a number of new airfields that were built to train RFC pilots. It stayed open after the war, unlike many similar airfields in the RAF when it was smaller. At first, it was a training school. Then, in 1924, it became a fighter station, which it did very well for 37 years. By 1938, RAF Duxford's No. 19 Squadron was so well-known that it was the first to get the new Supermarine Spitfire. In August of that year, the first Spitfire arrived at RAF Duxford. In June 1940, German forces took over Belgium, Holland, and France. Germany's next goal was to take over Britain. The base at RAF Duxford was made very ready. After that, there was a lot of fighting in the air. This was called the Battle of Britain. The station then helped protect the airspace over Britain. On September 15, 1940, which is known as "Battle of Britain Day," its squadrons took to the air twice to stop the Luftwaffe from attacking London. The station's test and trial units then took off. Before it was given to the US Army Air Forces, this gave the RAF important information about how its new plane would do in battle. In April 1943, the 78th Fighter Group moved into RAF Duxford, which the Americans soon started calling "Station 357." Their main job was to protect the big groups of US Eighth Air Force bombers as they went on dangerous and expensive daytime raids against Germany. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, when the Allies finally started their long-awaited invasion of occupied Europe, every 78th Fighter Group Thunderbolt that was available attacked targets behind the Normandy beachheads. After World War II was over, Duxford was once again used as an RAF station. This was the beginning of the last time it worked. Now that it had jet fighters like the Gloster Meteor, Hawker Hunter, and Gloster Javelin, its pilots were ready to shoot down Soviet bombers if the Cold War "heated up." But Duxford's time as an RAF base was coming to an end because it was no longer needed for defence purposes, which made it a fighter station in the first place. It was too far south and too far inland, and the expensive changes needed for supersonic fighters couldn't be explained. The last flight left RAF Duxford in July 1961, and for the next 15 years, no one knew what would happen to the airfield. IWM needed a place to store, fix up, and eventually show off exhibits that were too big to fit in its London headquarters. The airfield could be used for this after getting permission to do so. Together with the Imperial War Museum and the Duxford Aviation Society, Cambridgeshire County Council gave the aerodrome a new lease on life. IWM Duxford is now known as the place to go in Europe to learn about the history of aviation. This museum is one of a kind because of its historic location, its world-class collections of exhibits, and its regular world-famous Air Shows.