Holiday Brochures and Tourist Information for Cambridgeshire
Ely - Cambridgeshire Holiday Brochure
Anticipate - Escape - Explore Visit the historic Cathedral City of Ely and enjoy all the charm and beauty of East Cambridgeshire where there are lots of things to do and see. Order your free Ely & Cambridgeshire Holiday Brochure now, packed with Ely and Cambridgeshire tourist information
Peterborough Holiday Brochure
Peterborough is a vibrant modern city with a rich history reflected in its magnificent and beautiful Norman cathedral. Easily accessible from London, enjoy the unexpected combination of the historic culture, the great outdoors and a pleasurable shopping environment. Order your free Peterborough holiday brochure now!
Most of Cambridgeshire s 1,300 square miles are covered by the Fens - a rich and fertile agricultural landscape divided up by drainage ditches. Once it was all a big swamp inhabited by duck hunters, eel fishermen and a few farmers scratching a living on patches of higher ground. This isolated region was the ideal refuge for outlaws and for the last Anglo Saxon freedom fighter, Hereward the Wake who defied the Normans from his redoubt on the Isle of Ely, which in those days really was surrounded by water. Later the Normans built a magnificent cathedral at Ely, which seems to rise out of the flat, empty landscape like a great ship.
Fenland is the setting for Waterland the novel by Graham Swift, with a film version starring Jeremy Irons. Today most of the Fens have been drained but at Wicken Fen, one of Englands earliest nature reserves, a chunk of the original waterlogged landscape has been preserved. By the middle of the 21st Century, most of Fenland may end up under water again, as a consequence of Global warming.