A full account of Cambridge begins this volume tracing its development prior to the University & continuing with the architectural spendours that have appeared since. Cambridges architectural highlights are numerous. From the medieval college precincts built throughout the town & marked out by their turreted gatehouses to Wrens Trinity Library through the period of Victorian expansion & on to the ambitious & innovative buildings of the twentieth-century. In the county itself the most notable monument is Ely Cathedral with its unique octagonal crossing & the Georgian river port of Wisbech is especially attractive while Wimpole Hall exemplifies the grandeur of the major country houses. Substantial survivals of timber-framed buildings are more modest in scale but no less significant. Cambridgeshire architecture cannot fail to delight.