The tour starts on the outskirts of Cambridge, once called ‘Granta Brygg’ that retrospectively named its own river from the Granta to the River Cam, where you can take a guided Punt tour and is the main river that flows through the heart of Cambridge. The River Cam runs for around 43 miles (69km) from its furthest source near Debden in Essex and eventually joins the River Great Ouse just south of Ely. The first human settlement in Cambridge was believed to be of Roman origin, with the first town charters status granted in the 12th century, it wasn’t until 1951 that it was finally made a city even though it does not have a cathedral, traditionally this was a prerequisite for city status, instead Cambridge falls within the Church of England Diocese of Ely. It is well renowned for its university, founded in 1209 it boasts that 89 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to people associated to it, so ranks amongst the best in the world. There are a lot of famous people also linked to Cambridge, these include theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, it is where Clive Sinclair invented the Sinclair C5 electric car, Biologist Charles Darwin was a student the same as English comedian, actor, writer and presenter Stephen Fry, it’s also birthplace of actress, Olivia Newton John from Grease and many more, other things to do are Fitzwilliam Museum, Whipple Museum of the History Of Science, Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University Museum Of Zoology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Christs Piece and Parker's Piece and lots more, so is worthy of a visit.

Leaving Cambridge behind, you soon pass around Bourn, where close by is the centre for infertility treatment (Bourn Hall Clinic) founded in 1980 by IVF pioneers Mr Patrick Steptoe and Professor Robert Edwards, who were responsible for the conception of Louise Joy Brown, the world's first IVF or test-tube baby born in July 1978. After here there is a route option to turn right onto Primrose Hill and follow for 0.35 miles (0.56km) to visit Great Gransden windmill, a simple post mill type where the whole building is standing on a thick post and is turned to face the wind. A mill has stood on this site since the 13th century and parts of the existing structure date to the early 17th century. From here you go left onto the B1040 and through Gamlingay which gets a mention in the Hundred Rolls, a census taken in March 1279 when King Edward I commissioned a great inquiry into landholding of England and parts of what is now Wales. Often considered as an attempt to produce a second Domesday Book, they are named after the hundreds by which most returns were recorded.

After leaving Gamlingay you briefly go into the county of Bedfordshire which again you leave just shortly after leaving the village of Wrestlingworth, where here to your right in the distance you can see Hook's Windmill, Guilden Morden a tower mill of tarred brick with its ogee cap missing, built in 1865; on the right is Hook's late 18th century water mill and engine house with a tall tapering rectangular chimney stack, last used in 1935 and now a Grade II listed building.

Just after crossing over into the county of Hertfordshire you enter into the village of Ashwell where there is another route option by taking the next right and then first left onto Swan Lane and follow for 0.07 miles (0.11km) to visit Ashwell village museum, this iconic timber framed building is filled with a wealth of objects tracing the history of Ashwell from the Stone Age to the Present Day. It opens from 2.30pm to 5.00pm on Sundays and Bank Holidays, entry is free, but they ask for a small minimum donation of £2.50, with plenty of free on street parking. After leaving Ashwell you go on part of the Great North Road which was originally the main highway between England and Scotland from as far back as medieval times and up until the 20th century. It became a coaching route used by mail coaches travelling between London, York and Edinburgh. Just before leaving the county of Hertfordshire there is a scheduled refreshment stop.

Following the A507 with a scoot around Shefford and once on the A600 there is another route option by taking the next left onto sandy lane and follow for 0.7 miles (1.13km) before turning right on to Trenchard Avenue and following for a further 0.15 miles (0.24km) for a chance to visit the Military Intelligence Museum on your right. The museum is setup to collect , conserve, record, interpret and make otherwise accessible for public benefit, artefacts, documents and other material relating to the Intelligence Corps and wider military intelligence activity. With free entry, its opening times are Tuesday to Friday 10am - 4pm, with free onsite parking.

Continuing on from the A660 to your right just before Bedford you can see Cardington airbase, this became one of the major British sites involved in the development of airships. Dominating the skyline of this part of Bedford the Cardington Hangars stand at over 180ft tall. In 1917 they were originally constructed by AJ Main & Co for the Admiralty and were used for building Airships. The first hangar was followed by a second shed which famously housed the R101 airship which tragically crashed on a voyage to India just northwest of Paris. Unfortunately, the development of airships was ceased due to this disaster and the sheds then became redundant. World War II saw the hangars being utilised to train barrage balloon operators and the hangars have also been used for training services and more recently has played a role in the filmmaking industry with the filming of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, Batman Begins and lots of others. From here it is then into Bedford which was granted town chartership in 1166 by King Henry II and grew as a centre for the wool trade. It later became a powerhouse of England's lace industry, aided by the River Great Ouse that passes through Bedford town that became navigable in 1689. Famous people from Bedford include comedian Ronnie Barker, ski jumper Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards but to name but a few. Other top attractions to see or do in Bedford is the Panacea Museum, Priory country park, Bedford Park, John Bunyan Museum and the Higgins Museum and Art gallery.

Taking the B660 out of Bedford and just after crossing back into the county of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough if you look to your left in the distance you can see the beautiful 17th century Kimbolton Castle just shortly before arriving in Kimbolton. Said to be one of the smallest villages in Cambridgeshire but it's filled to the brim with charm and steeped rich in history, where during the Saxon era it is said that King Harold Godwinson owned a hunting lodge nearby, and with its earliest known castle a medieval motte and bailey dating from Norman times, it was once the final home of king Henry VIII's first wife Queen Catherine of Aragon. It was here where she spent the last months of her life as a semi-prisoner in her room in the south-west corner of the Castle which she is said to now haunt, after which it was the former seat of the Duke of Manchester from 1615 up to 1950 and during World War II, the Castle was used by the Royal Army Medical Corps, but is now a private school. There is a scheduled lunch stop here at Crawfords restaurant where they serve delicious freshly made sandwiches, great coffee and homemade cakes.

With a 24.8 mile (40km) ride along some lovely undulating and twisty roads you soon enter the Fens this is where the roads start to become a lot flatter and more straighter and it isn’t long before you enter the village of Ramsey, where there is another route option by taking the next turn on the left and follow the high street for 0.16 miles (0.25km) for a chance to see what remains of this medieval Ramsey Abbey old gatehouse. With its ornately carved exterior and glorious oriel window, built using Barnack stone found from Middle Jurassic Lincolnshire Limestone to the northwest of Peterborough including the famous 'Barnack Rag'. The best quality Barnack Stone was worked out by around 1460. The building is perpendicular Gothic, built late in the 15th century and now a Grade I listed building and owned by the National Trust.

From here you enter the historical Fen Edge region it’s an area of 400,000 hectares and there are five villages within this region these are Cottenham, Landbeach, Rampton, Waterbeach and Willingham which were originally settlements on the shore of the marshes close to the city of Cambridge, then an inland port. You will get to visit two of them Cottenham and Landbeach. Cottenham was developed from Saxon origins and is known to have been well established by the end of the early medieval period. With much of Cottenham sitting around 25 feet (8m) above sea level, it lies on raised fertile red loam whose early economy was focused on the fenlands to the north of the village. The houses in the area have a mix of architectural styles because few have survived the numerous fires which have destroyed most of the older building. All Saints' Church was fortunate enough to survive and dates from the 15th century, decorated in gothic and perpendicular styles consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, with north and south porches and a 100-foot-tall tower with four pinnacles containing a clock and six bells.

And finally, its onto Landbeach listed as Utbech ("out bec") in the Domesday Book of 1086, and in the 13th and 14th centuries it was occasionally referred to as Inbech ("in bec"). It was well populated in Roman times, and as the village's situation is on a Roman road it would of helped its growth. The road, Akeman Street, which once joined Ely to London, passes close to the village from north to south. Car Dyke, the Roman drainage canal known locally as the Tilling, also runs through the village and in medieval times marked the boundary between the marshes of Landbeach and neighbouring Waterbeach. Drainage of the parish was not completed until the 18th century, and for much of the year large areas of the parish were inundated. You also have Tithe Barn constructed in the sixteenth century, or possibly earlier, for the collection and storage of tithes, a tithe is one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government, in this instance was paid by the villagers to the church.

From here it’s only a short 2.1 mile (3.4km) back to the outskirts of Cambridge and the end of the route.