Grantchester, Byron's Pool c.1946
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This haven of tranquillity lies just a quarter of a mile from the main road down a wooded path, but many people feel that it has been spoilt by concrete buttresses and notice boards. It is here that the poet Byron is said to have swum naked with a choirboy from Cambridge.
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Memories of Grantchester, Byron's Pool c1946
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Just out of Trumpington, on the road to Grantchester, was the entrance to an area known as Byron’s Pool, named after Lord Byron who apparently frequented the area whilst at Cambridge University. Probably hoping to find somewhere discrete to make his next sexual conquest from what I’ve read about him since. Once through the clapper gate you made your way through an area of rough woodland that ...see more
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