Editing Grantchester (section)

==Overview==
Grantchester is said to have the world's highest concentration of [[Nobel Prize]] winners, most of these presumably being current or retired academics from the nearby [[University of Cambridge]].<ref name="Cambridge News">{{cite news|title=Nine things you didn't know about Grantchester|url=http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/things-didn-t-know-Grantchester/story-23121959-detail/story.html|access-date=20 December 2015|work=Cambridge News|date=13 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913222711/http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/things-didn-t-know-Grantchester/story-23121959-detail/story.html|archive-date=13 September 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Students and tourists often travel from Cambridge by [[punt (boat)|punt]] to picnic in the meadows or take tea at [[The Orchard (tea room)|The Orchard]]. In 1897, a group of Cambridge students persuaded the owner of Orchard House to serve them tea in its apple orchard, and this became a regular practice.<ref name=Kelly>{{cite news|last1=Kelly|first1=Tony|title=Yes Rupert, there's still honey for tea...|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/yes-rupert-theres-still-honey-for-tea-1244687.html|access-date=20 December 2015|work=The Independent|date=10 August 1997}}</ref> Lodgers at Orchard House included the [[Edwardian literature|Edwardian poet]] [[Rupert Brooke]], who later moved next door to the [[Old Vicarage, Grantchester|Old Vicarage]]. In 1912, while in [[Berlin]], he wrote a poem of [[homesickness]] entitled "[[The Old Vicarage, Grantchester]]". The house is currently the home of the Cambridge scientist [[Mary Archer]] and her husband, [[Jeffrey Archer]].<ref name=Kelly/> Grantchester has been the home since 1969 of the sculptor [[Helaine Blumenfeld]] OBE.<ref name=Wright>{{cite news|last1=Wright|first1=Karen|title=Helaine Blumenfeld: 'Art is a commitment to risk, a reflection of life – nothing stays the same'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/helaine-blumenfeld-art-is-a-commitment-to-risk-a-reflection-of-life-nothing-stays-the-same-7827250.html|access-date=20 December 2015|work=The Independent|date=9 June 2012}}</ref>

The footpath to Cambridge that runs beside [[Grantchester Meadows]]<ref>Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History Martin Garrett - 2004 -- Page viii 1902669797 "Its propensity to flood has threaded through Cambridge from the pubs in Grantchester to the Ditton Plough, a broad green ribbon of flood plain — Grantchester Meadows, The Iammas Land, the Backs, Jesus Green, Midsummer Common, ... "</ref> is nicknamed the Grantchester Grind.<ref name=Kelly/> ''[[Grantchester Grind]]'' is the title of a 1995 comic novel written by [[Tom Sharpe]].<ref name=Reynolds>{{cite news|last1=Reynolds|first1=Stanley|title=Tom Sharpe obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/06/tom-sharpe-dies|access-date=20 December 2015|work=The Guardian|date=6 June 2013}}</ref> Further upstream is [[Byron's Pool]], named after [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord Byron]], who is said (by Brooke, at least) to have swum there.<ref name=Jordison>{{cite news|last1=Jordison|first1=Sam|title=Going swimming with Roger Deakin|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/jul/08/going-swimming-roger-deakin|access-date=20 December 2015|work=The Guardian|date=9 July 2009}}</ref> The pool is now below a modern weir where the [[Bourn Brook, Cambridgeshire|Bourn Brook]] flows into the River Cam. Byron's Pool is a [[Local Nature Reserve]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=byron&ID=1123|title= Byron's Pool|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England|access-date=4 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271084814%27 |title=Map of Byron's Pool|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England|access-date=4 August 2013}}</ref>