Rather interesting Cambridge facts
Click for places to stay in Cambridge | Today's best rates | Send in your views of Cambridge | Read visitor reports
Did you know that you are not allowed to play tennis on the streets of Cambridge?
Did you know Did you know that Oliver Cromwell is buried in an unmarked grave close to the doors of the Sidney Sussex College Chapel? He was originally buried in Westminster Abbey , but in 1661 Charles II had his body removed to be hanged, drawn and quartered and finally beheaded at Tyburn , his skull displayed on a spike at the Abbey for nearly a quarter of a century. What is thought to be his skull was eventually buried at his old college Sidney Sussex in March 1960.
If you like this, Share it
Famous Cambridge people:
Amy Williams
Arthur Ramsey
Christopher Cockerell
Dame Margaret Cole
David Gilmour
Douglas Adams
Douglas Hartree
Eddy Shah
F R Leavis
Frank Ramsey
Jack Hobbs
Jacquetta Hawkes
John Cheke
John Maynard Keynes
John Minton
Judith Weir
Max Stafford-Clark
Michael Pennington
Richard Attenborough
Ronald Norrish
Ronald Searle
Sir George Thomson
William Stearn
More famous Britons here
Brit Quote: |
|
On this day: |