The Backs
Riverside lawns and college gardens along the Cam, with grazing cattle and chapel views.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Backs in Cambridge is about the riverside lawns behind the colleges, and the year seventeen seventy-nine, when the university's Chancellor invited Capability Brown, England's most celebrated garden designer, to rethink them as a whole. It follows a watercolour plan, a lake that might have been, and the stately role cast for King's College's Fellows' Building. Best heard on the grass by the river, facing the chapel.
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