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 | | Just a ten-minute drive from Cambridge, Grantchester is a picturesque village with thatched-roof cottages, pubs with interesting names, the Parish Church, a delightful Tea Garden set within The Orchards.There is also the Old Vicarage, where Rupert Brooke lived for some time and the beautiful meadows beside the River Cam. |
 | | Brooke’s connection with Grantchester began in 1909 when, having taken his degree, he left his rooms in King’s and moved into The Orchard, to lodge with Mr and Mrs Stevenson, who kept the Tea Garden. |
 | | A natural place to begin a visit to Grantchester, is The War Memorial in the Parish Churchyard, inscribed with a quotation from his poem on Grantchester —Men with splendid hearts, and has Rupert Brooke’s name among those of others from the hamlet. |
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