Overview

Talk about your college towns! The largely agricultural area known as Cambridge, which is located on the Fens, is packed with some thirty institutions of higher learning � the most well known and respected, of course, being Cambridge University. According to tradition, Cambridge was founded in the thirteenth century by a group of Oxford exiles. Over the years, the university has produced a number of respected scholars, artists, and Nobel Prize winners. The city has also become recognized for its cutting edge technology. Locals even refer to it as "Silicon Fen." The town itself is fairly compact, and tourists can get around easily on foot. Besides the individual colleges, the biggest attractions include the impressive Fitzwilliam Museum, the tranquil Botanic Gardens, horse racing at Newmarket, the seventeenth century Anglesey Abbey, and Wimpole Hall, which was once home to Rudyard Kipling's daughter.

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