Janet Jeacock
Regional Qualification(s):
East of England
Language(s):
English
Phone Number(s):
01638-660584, 01638-660584
Contact guide
Introduction:
A former actress with a vast knowledge of Cambridge and the whole of East Anglia. Tours are informative but always light-hearted and great fun.
Author of the best-selling current Cambridge Official Guide Book (pub. Jarrolds) and Cambridge Colleges (pub. Jarrolds)
Personal Interests:
Constable Country |
Ely/Fens/Essex |
Newmarket/Suffolk Wool Towns |
Cambridge Uni & Colleges |
Special Interests:
Art/Paintings & Sculpture | John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Alfred Munnings. Follow in the footsteps of these great landscape painters. Visit their homes and the countryside they loved. |
Churches & Cathedrals | Visit magnificent King's College Chapel, Ely Cathedral with a unique 14th century Octagon, the medieval "Wool" churches, or the ruined Abbey at Bury St. Edmunds. |
Countryside | The Fens, 700,000 acres of uniquely rich farmland stretching from Lincoln to Cambridge. Oliver Cromwell country. Immensely rich bird life. |
Folklore & Traditions | East Anglia is haunted. Learn about strange ghosts and dreadful murders, witchcraft and the witches who lived here, ancient customs, beliefs, traditions and remedies. |
Lecture Subjects | I give lectures and/or slide talks on all my special subjects. |
Military | Duxford Imperial War Museum, near Cambridge, Britain's premier aircraft museum, home to the new American Air Museum; the American Military Cemetery; sites of 2nd World War airfields.. |
Regional Tours | The whole of East Anglia, its towns, beautiful villages, history, folklore and unusual customs. East Anglians are different from other people, come and meet them! |
Royalty | Sandringham, the Queen's Norfolk home, Cambridge the 'Royal' University with its many colleges founded by royalty, Newmarket with its royal history and ongoing royal connections. |
Sports & Pastimes | Newmarket, "headquarters" of British horse-racing. Two race courses, National Stud, National Horse-racing Museum, training yards, stud farms, miles of open gallops, Tattersall's sales. Author Dick Francis country. |
Walking Tours | Explore Cambridge, its magnificent Colleges and beautiful 'Backs' beside the river Cam and all the other historical and fascinating places in East Anglia. |
Endorsements:
Ely Cathedral
Driver Guide:
No