WW ll sights near Cambridge

We have just come back from visiting my sister and my parents, who live a few miles east of Cambridge, a bit to the south of the USAF bases at Lakenheath and Mildenhall. We drove past Duxford on the way home yesterday.

I don't know about tours, and Google doesn't reveal anything obvious, but something may show up with a bit of searching. Other than that, you will need a car. There is public transport, but even on fairly busy routes - such as the bus between my sister's fairly large village of Burwell and the city of Cambridge - they only run hourly, and for out of the way places like old and abandoned airforce bases you can forget it in most cases - a car will be the only practical way of getting there in a sensible amount of time, or at all.

Ridgewell is south east of Cambridge, in Essex. I haven't been there, but Wikipedia says most of the airfield was returned to agricultural use after the war, the control tower and other buildings were torn down and the runways were mostly dug up, although some of the perimeter roads were incorporated into the local road network and a gliding club uses the site during the summer. Ridgewell itself looks like quite an attractive little village on Google Streetview.

Judy - For the American Military Cemetery outside of Cambridge, just take the HOHO bus. It drops you right off by the cemetery. Here is a link to the cemetery: http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/ca.php

Hi,

On WW II sites near and around Cambridge, in addition to those recommendations above, there was also a German POW camp at Trumpington, a village very close to Cambridge.