Cherry Hinton Park was created from the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall. It contains a very wide variety of mature trees dating from its time as a Hall, and many more modern sculptures, carved out of the wood of trees which had died. It is a relaxing place for a calming stroll.

Grime's Graves is a Neolithic flint mine, dating from somewhere between 3000 and 2000 BC. There were many mine shafts, each one having many tunnels radiating from it along the flint seam. Flints were mined for shaping into axe heads, arrow heads and very much more recently, flintlocks for muskets. The flints were dug out using picks made from the antlers of deer. We went with Victoria, a schoolfriend of Charles, and her father Bernard. It entails going down a shaft around 40 feet deep. The tunnels are very shallow - hard hats are essential, even for the smaller visitors!