This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Gift & Specialty Shop Attractions In Cambridgeshire

x
Cambridgeshire , is a county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. The city of Cambridge is the county town. Modern Cambridgeshire was formed in 1974 as an amalgamation of the counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and Peterborough, the former covering the historic county of Cambridgeshire and the latter covering the historic county of Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough, historically part of Northamptonshire. It contains most of the region known as Silicon Fen. Local...
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filter Attractions:

Gift & Specialty Shop Attractions In Cambridgeshire

  • 4. Grafton Centre, Cambridge Cambridge
    Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, , styled Earl of Euston between 1747 and 1757, was a British Whig statesman of the Georgian era. He is one of a handful of dukes who have served as Prime Minister. He became Prime Minister in 1768 at the age of 33, leading the supporters of William Pitt, and was the youngest person to have held the office until the appointment of William Pitt the Younger 15 years later. However, he struggled to demonstrate an ability to counter increasing challenges to Britain's global dominance following the nation's victory in the Seven Years' War. He was widely attacked for allowing France to annex Corsica, and stepped down in 1770, handing over power to Lord North.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 5. Heffers Cambridge
    Blackwell UK, also known as Blackwell's and Blackwell Group, is a British academic book retailer and library supply service. It was founded in 1879 by Benjamin Henry Blackwell, after whom the chain is named, in Oxford on Broad Street. The firm now has a chain of 45 shops, and an accounts and library supply service. It employs around 1000 staff in its divisions.The Broad Street branches, which include speciality music and art/poster shops, remained the only ones until expansion in the early 1990s, when at peak after taking over Heffers in Cambridge in 1999 and James Thin in Scotland in 2002, the company had over 70 outlets. Its library supply chain serves an international market, but parts were sold off in 2009, with the North American arm of Blackwell Book Services and the Australian busin...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 6. Chocolat Chocolat Cambridge
    Hotel Chocolat is a British chocolatier and cocoa grower, with over seventy shops in the United Kingdom. Hotel Chocolat is the only company in the United Kingdom to grow cocoa on its own plantation.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 8. Robert Graham Ltd Est 1874 Cambridge
    Matthew Piers Watt Boulton , also published under the pseudonym M. P. W. Bolton, was a British classicist, elected member of the UK's Metaphysical Society, an amateur scientist and an inventor, best known for his invention of the aileron, a primary aeronautical flight control device. He patented the aileron in 1868, some 36 years before it was first employed in manned flight by Robert Esnault-Pelterie in 1904. Boulton was the son of Matthew Robinson Boulton, and as well the grandson of Matthew Boulton, who founded the Soho Manufactory and the Soho Mint. His grandfather also co-founded the Soho Foundry with James Watt, which employed steam engines of the latter's design. Born into a family of significant wealth and means, M. P. W. was broadly educated in the classics, philosophy and science...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 10. Ben Hayward Cycles Cambridge
    Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI is an English musician, record producer, and visual artist. He is best known for his pioneering work in ambient music and contributions to rock, pop, electronic, and generative music. A self-described non-musician, Eno has helped introduce a variety of conceptual approaches and recording techniques to contemporary music, advocating a methodology of theory over practice, serendipity over forethought, and texture over craft according to AllMusic. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures.Born in Suffolk, Eno studied painting and experimental music at the art school at Ipswich Civic College in the mid 1960s and then at Winchester School of Art. He joined glam rock group Roxy Music as synt...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 11. Queensgate Shopping Centre Peterborough
    The Queensgate shopping centre in the United Kingdom, is situated at Peterborough city centre in Cambridgeshire ,. It was opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on 9 March 1982 and contains over 90 stores and parking for 2,300 cars. Queensgate bus station is adjacent to the shopping centre and only a short walk from Peterborough railway station, a major interchange. Peterborough Shopmobility provide wheelchairs and electric scooters to help those with limited mobility.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Cambridgeshire Videos

Shares

x

Places in Cambridgeshire

x

Regions in Cambridgeshire

x

Near By Places

Menu