Fodor's Expert Review The Eagle

Cambridge

This 16th-century coaching inn with a cobbled courtyard has lost none of its old-time character. It also played a walk-on part in scientific history when, on February 28, 1953, a pair of excited Cambridge scientists announced to a roomful of rather surprised lunchtime patrons that they'd just discovered the secret of life: DNA. (Unfortunately they forgot to mention their third colleague, Rosalind Franklin, who has been largely erased from the history of their discovery). A plaque outside commemorates the event.

Quick Facts

8 Benet St.
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire  CB2 3QN, England

01223-505020

www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk/pubs/cambridgeshire/eagle

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