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Cambridge Hookups: Cambridge Women Want to Meet

No-strings fun for adults in Cambridge, from the riverside to the edge of the Fens.

Cambridge hookups for town and gown

Cambridge has had a university since 1209, and the colleges still dominate the skyline, King's College Chapel among them. Add the local campus of Anglia Ruskin and the city's two universities serve something like 30,000 students, in a city of about 146,000 where a much higher share of people than average work in senior professional and managerial jobs.

It is also the county town of Cambridgeshire, 55 miles north of London on low, level ground just south of the Fens, with about 181,000 people across the wider built-up area. Merchants once came from all over the country for fairs such as Stourbridge Fair and Midsummer Fair. For a Cambridge hookup today, the draw is a mixed crowd: students, academics and a lot of people in well-paid jobs.

A walk by the Cam, in the driest corner of Britain

Cambridge sits in the driest region of Britain, with about half the national average rainfall, so a walk by the River Cam is a better bet here than in most places. The river is used for boating right through the city centre, and the rowing clubs racing on it give you something to watch while you work out whether you like each other.

The University Botanic Garden, about a mile south of the centre, is a greener option for a daytime meeting. The city has some less obvious pastimes too: two real tennis courts at the university's club, out of only about 50 in the world, and an active parkour community the city is known for. Either is a better opener than asking which college someone was at. Wherever you go, choose somewhere with people about for the first meeting and let a friend know the plan.

Matches from Peterborough to Harlow

Our members within 40 miles of Cambridge are spread right across the region: Peterborough, Bedford and Milton Keynes, Luton, Harlow and Hoddesdon, London Colney, and Colchester. Ages are evenly spread here, about a quarter in each band from 18 to 44, with the rest, a little over a quarter, aged 45 and up. That puts just over half of them at 35 or older, against a little over four in ten across the site as a whole, and the 35 to 44s edge ahead as the largest single group. For a university city, it's a grown-up crowd. Three in ten are women. With a circle this size, the person you click with may be a fair distance away, so be ready to travel or to host.

18 to 2424%

25 to 3424%

35 to 4426%

45 to 5417%

55 and over9%

Ages of our members within 40 miles of Cambridge, today.

Close enough for a weeknight: Ely, St Ives, Saffron Walden

None of Cambridge's nearest towns are far. St Ives is about twelve miles away, Soham and Saffron Walden about thirteen, and Ely about fifteen, with Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Haverhill and St Neots all around fifteen or sixteen. London is 55 miles south, near enough for a night out in the other direction.

Cambridge hookups: questions worth asking

Do I have to leave Cambridge to find a hookup?

Be ready to. Our members within 40 miles are spread from Peterborough to Colchester and from Luton to Harlow, so a bit of travel comes with the territory. With VIP, the advanced filters narrow results by city and distance.

Is a university city too small a world for a hookup?

It can feel that way, which is why the basics matter here. Your profile carries a username rather than your name or email, and a nearest town rather than an address, and you can block anyone who makes you uncomfortable so they can't message you again.

Is London close enough for a Cambridge hookup?

At 55 miles it is a trip rather than a quick hop, but it can work for a night. If you'd rather keep it nearer home, Harlow and Hoddesdon are both among the places our members near Cambridge come from.

Hookups near Cambridge

Every town we cover is on the locations page, and the near me page explains how members find each other close to home.