Book-hunting route · Cambridge

Oxfam Bookshop and 4 more

5 shops · about 10 minutes on foot · 0.8 km

This Cambridge route runs to 10 minutes across 5 stops. It starts at Oxfam Bookshop on Sidney Street, then it is 4 minutes to Cambridge University Press Bookshop on Trinity Street. G. David and The Haunted Book Shop follow on St Edward's Passage, and the run ends 5 minutes later at Bodies in the Bookshop.

Open the route in Google Maps Walking directions, stop by stop. The line above follows the streets, routed on OpenStreetMap data.

The stops, in walking order

Starts at the end nearest the city centre. Times are pavement estimates at an easy pace.

  1. 1 Oxfam Bookshop

    Second-hand bookshop · Sidney Street · CB2 3HW

    Mon–Sat 10:00–17:00; Sun 11:15–16:00

  2. 2

    4 min walk

    Cambridge University Press Bookshop

    Second-hand bookshop · Trinity Street · CB2 1SZ

    Mon–Sat 10:00–17:30; Sun 11:00–17:00

  3. 3

    2 min walk

    G. David

    Second-hand bookshop · St Edward's Passage · CB2 3PJ

  4. 4

    1 min walk

    The Haunted Book Shop

    Second-hand bookshop · St Edward's Passage · CB2 3PJ

    Mon–Thu 11:00–17:00; Fri,Sat 10:00–17:00; Sun closed

  5. 5

    5 min walk

    Bodies in the Bookshop

    Second-hand bookshop · Botolph Lane · CB2 3RD

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How the route is built

Shops within about 400 metres of the next one count as one run, walked from the end nearest the centre. Long runs are cut into legs of ten stops or fewer. The distance follows the streets; the minutes are an easy-pace estimate. Opening hours are whatever OpenStreetMap has on record: check the volunteer-run ones before you set out.

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