Dons, fens and bandy are our three fave Cambridgeshire words. Even oiks like The Young Ones might yearn after a tour around the famous university, and they might also be lured to a stumble around the Cambridgeshire Fens by means of a tin of supermarket cider tied invitingly to a stick just ahead. But their favourite would probably be bandy, the forerunner to ice hockey first played on the Fens in the nineteenth century and so hardcore that the goalie doesn’t even get a stick (if you’re of Young Ones bent or in Cambridgeshire in sunny times, a bandy game can probably be recreated on a lino floor in slippy socks).
Cambridgeshire is also known for Ely and Peterborough cathedrals, its old market towns and Huntingdon, where Oliver Cromwell was born and where John Major was MP when he became Prime Minister in 1990. Well, a county can’t have everything. Book a Cambridgeshire campsite or holiday park to get your own yen for the fens (and dons, and bandy): sites are searchable by dates, user reviews, price and dozens more filters.
