Grantchester occurs as village on the River Cam or Granta in Cambridgeshire, England. These are used in the Domesday Book as Grantesete and Grauntsethe.

Holidaymaker & students typically travel from either Cambridge by punt to eat A picnic in the hayfield or even at a Tea Garden known as The Woodlet. Around 1897 the group of Cambridge students persuaded a creator of Grove Home to serve the babies tea, & this became a regular practice. Roomer at Plantation Home involved a poet Rupert Brooke, who down the road moved in the adjacent house to the Old Vicarage. Within 1912, while within Berlin, he would write his well-known verse form A Old Vicarage, Grantchester. A Old Vicarage is presently a personal of Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare.

A pathway from either Cambridge to Grantchester that diarrhea beside Grantchester Meadows is nicknamed a Grantchester Grind.

Farther upriver is Byron's Pool, known as fallowing Lord Byron who is said (by Brooke, at least) to have swum there. a pool is currently following a modern weir at a junction of the Bourn Brook & the Flow of any stream Cam.

Grantchester is the subject of Grantchester Meadows, a song by Pink Floyd.