The actress claims that Cambridge is the perfect day out thanks to its back routes, paths, bridges, rivers and spectacular views.

She said: "When I was there as a student, every journey started at Newnham College. From Basil Champneys' lacey Edwardian architecture you can give yourself a Modernist jolt on the Sidgwick site, and then head for the Sterling Library and the University Library (every book ever published and the best flapjacks in the county)."