Practicalities

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Practicalities during your stay

Click on a heading below for useful information to help with your planning.

    Getting to Ridley

    Getting to Ridley

    Read our Getting here page for information on travelling to Ridley from the airport, or from within the UK.

    You may also find the following pages within the same Visitors menu helpful:

    Getting about during your stay

    Getting about during your stay

    The rail service between London and Cambridge is excellent, and you can be in the centre of London within 50 minutes of leaving Cambridge, with trains scheduled until late.

    The rail and bus service to the London airports is also excellent, and there are buses which go regularly to Oxford and other destinations of interest. You may also find our page on Living in Cambridge helpful, which has information on local transport.

    "I had a tour of the grounds and had all my questions answered. And staff and students were very welcoming and helped me understand how Ridley functioned and where everything was." Dr Timothy Gombis, New Testament Professor, Grand Rapids, MI
    Read the full testimonial
    Medical care

    Medical care

    Should you need medical care while here there is a doctors' surgery right next door to the college and the local hospital is a world class teaching facility. If you are travelling from overseas, health insurance must, however, be arranged before you arrive, as there is a cost involved.

    Finding a local church

    Finding a local church

    Cambridge has more than double the national average Christian commitment, and an unusually large number and diversity of churches in and around the city, with 80 churches and chapels, around half of which are Anglican. There is a wide diversity of places of worship within walking distance of Ridley, including King's College Chapel, where choral services are held daily in term-time.

    Swans on the River Cam, with Kings College Chapel in the background
    Swans on the River Cam, with Kings College Chapel in the background