St Ives Ride, Walk and Meal

Join Alan for a walk around St Ives town. We will meet at Cambridge station (station front) at 6.15pm for a ride on the guided bus to St Ives. there'll be a quick walk around the town, and meal at Wetherspoons in St Ives, returning around 9pm.

St Ives began life as the village of Slepe, built on the banks of the Great Ouse in about AD 500. Its rise to fame and fortune began with the discovery of the bones of ‘St Ivo’. According to legend it was on 24th April 1001 that a ploughman from Slepe dug up a stone coffin containing a skeleton.

A town began to grow up in the area between the old Saxon village and the new Priory. The town took its name from St Ivo, although it was later discovered that the bones were more likely to have been those of a rich Roman farmer.

From Alan: Please advise that you are coming by 10pm on 30th April 2025