Grantchester Meadows
Riverside meadows with grazing cattle, wild swimming and a footpath to village tea gardens.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Grantchester Meadows, on the edge of Cambridge, follows a poem written in a Berlin café in nineteen twelve and the riverside world it was asking after. You'll meet Rupert Brooke, Virginia Woolf and the barefoot circle she named the neo-pagans, and the long, contested habit of swimming in this stretch of the Cam. Best heard on the riverbank path, with the water beside you.
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