Museo St Peter's, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ

St Peter's is north of the River Cam situated near the Castle mound which is all that remains of the Norman castle, which was built on the important route to the north of England.  St Peter's is calm and tranquil, and was originally built in the eleventh century, with traces of its Saxon past still surviving in the form of two lovely carved doorways and the stone font.

The church was rebuilt in Georgian times, and is a simple, elegant gem of a building. An unnamed grave stone, dated February 1681 lies in a quiet corner of the churchyard. The grave could have belonged to someone who died in the second wave of plague that devastated the local area around this time. But what's unusual and quite poignant about this young girl's gravestone is that it's in the shape of a heart.

With the homely domestic architecture of the neighbouring houses, including Kettle's Yard Museum next door, the quaint buildings of the Cambridge Folk Museum nearby and St Giles Church, this corner of Cambridge has an almost rural feel, in contrast to the grandeur of the city's more famous sights.