Grantchester
About
Grantchester is a picture-perfect village a couple of miles south of Cambridge, famous for its association with Rupert Brooke and the Grantchester Group of poets and artists. The walk or cycle from Cambridge along the meadows by the Cam is one of the great English countryside walks — flat, green, and pastoral, with cows grazing and punts drifting past. The Orchard Tea Garden is the destination — an orchard where you sit in deckchairs under apple trees and drink tea from proper china cups. Brooke, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Keynes, Wittgenstein, and practically every significant Cambridge figure of the early 20th century took tea here. It's been serving teas since 1897 and the atmosphere hasn't changed much. The church clock referenced in Brooke's famous poem is next door (it does now work, sadly for romantics). Come on a sunny afternoon, walk or punt from Cambridge, have tea and cake in the orchard, then walk back. It's the most perfect English afternoon imaginable. The Green Man pub does good food too. The ITV series Grantchester is set here but filmed elsewhere — the real village is nicer.
https://www.theorchardteagarden.co.uk/
Opening Times
Village always accessible. Orchard Tea Garden: daily 9:30-17:00 (summer), 10:00-16:00 (winter).
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