{"id":467877,"date":"2026-03-10T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467877\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:11:12","slug":"a-new-walking-trail-has-launched-around-one-of-cambridges-most-underrated-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467877\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Walking Trail Has Launched Around One of Cambridge\u2019s Most Underrated Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cambridge<\/a> is mostly known for its gothic spires, its grand university buildings and the enormous treasure trove of art and antiquities that is the Fitzwilliam Museum. All magnificent pieces of architecture, and all pretty difficult to miss. But elsewhere in the city, there\u2019s an unassuming little\u00a0house that contains its own treasure trove.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

David Parr House was the home of Victorian working class artist David Parr. From the outside, it appears a fairly ordinary terraced home. But inside, it\u2019s\u00a0adorned with extraordinary hand-painted interiors that look as though they belong in a stately home. Parr filled the house with his own colourful, intricate artwork, including wall tiles, handmade furniture and decorative glass windows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year, the underrated museum is putting on a programme of exhibitions and talks on the theme of maps, travel and journeys. And as part of that programme, it has created a\u00a0self-guided walking map of Cambridge to spotlight more hidden gems of the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll take visitors on a tour of the\u00a0surviving work of the Cambridge decorative firm F. R. Leach & Sons, Parr\u2019s employer. The firm, founded by\u00a0Frederick Richard Leach in 1862, was nationally renowned, specialising in church decoration and working with some of the foremost artists and craftsmen of the time, from\u00a0George Frederick Bodley to William Morris.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Stop
\nPhotograph: David Parr House <\/p>\n

The trail includes stops at St Peter\u2019s Church, St Clement\u2019s Church, All Saints\u2019 Church, Jesus College Chapel and\u00a03 St Mary\u2019s Passage, which is the Grade II listed showroom of F. R. Leach & Sons. It also takes visitors\u00a0along the same walk that\u00a0David Parr would have taken to get home each day \u2013 from All Saints\u2019 Church, past the City Road workshops and to his\u00a0front door\u00a0at 186 Gwydir Street.<\/p>\n

\"Interior
\nPhotograph: Adrian PowterAll Saints\u2018 Church <\/p>\n

All in all, the trail covers around 2km, and the museum recommends allowing up to four hours to complete it. The self-guided map will be available for \u00a35 from April 1 and there\u2019ll be a guided tour along the\u00a0route on April 4 for \u00a325 per person. David Parr House is open Thursday to Saturday, with entry starting at \u00a315 per person.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can find out more on the David Parr House website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Did you see that a\u00a0new British forest just\u00a0launched its first walking trail<\/a>?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Plus:\u00a0Four new walking trails make it easier to explore this majestic English county<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay in the loop: sign up to our\u00a0free Time Out UK newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the latest UK news and the best stuff happening across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cambridge is mostly known for its gothic spires, its grand university buildings and the enormous treasure trove of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1422,59,57,58,50,1423,1420,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-467877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-categories-things-to-do","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-news-city-life","tag-things-to-do","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}