Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Victorian botanic garden with a conifer-lined walk, gravel-pit lake, rock garden and glasshouses.
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This guide to Cambridge University Botanic Garden begins on the second of November, eighteen forty-six, with a Vice-Chancellor planting a lime tree on former cornfield beside Trumpington Road. It follows a garden meant for study that kept turning into somewhere to wander, from rescued town-centre gates to decades of allotments and a lake dug from a gravel pit. Best heard just inside the Trumpington Road gates.
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