This page contains directions to our campus on East Road, as well as to our Health Building, Music Therapy Centre and Compass House which are all nearby.
We’re committed to doing all we can to reduce the environmental impact of traffic travelling to our campuses, and promote the use of public transport wherever possible. As a student at ARU, you can get discounts on the train in Cambridge.
Our East Road campus is about a ten-minute walk from the centre of Cambridge and landmarks such as the Guildhall and Market Square. The Health Building and Music Therapy Centre are just around the corner on Young Street. You’ll find a campus map at the bottom of this page.
Cambridge is the unofficial cycling capital of the UK, and Cambridge Cycling Campaign has a free city map and route planner.
You’ll find plenty of cycle parking on campus.
Cambridge has five Park and Ride bus routes, one of which (Newmarket Road) stops at Napier Street, about ten minutes' walk from campus.
Park and Ride is usually a quicker and cheaper option than using a car park. Check the Cambridge park and ride website for routes and ticket prices.
We’re a 15-minute walk from Drummer Street bus station, where most local bus services stop. Stagecoach has bus timetables and route maps.
National Express coaches (including services from Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted airports) stop at the Cambridge Coach Station on Parkside, a five-minute walk from campus. Coach routes and timetables are available from National Express.
Trains run frequently between Cambridge and London, Ipswich, Peterborough, King’s Lynn, Birmingham and Stansted Airport.
If you’re travelling from Heathrow or Gatwick, head for King’s Cross or Liverpool Street stations in London; you can catch trains to Cambridge from there. If you’re planning a train journey in the UK, National Rail Enquiries is a helpful source of information.
If you’re travelling on Eurostar it will bring you to King’s Cross, where you can catch a train to Cambridge. The journey time from London to Cambridge is about 50 minutes to one hour.
When you arrive in Cambridge, we’re a 20-minute walk from the train station. Alternatively, you can catch the busway A bus to The Busway Parkside (Nw-Bound), which is a seven-minute walk to campus. Take a look at Google Maps to see which option suits you.
Cambridge is close to the A1 for north-south journeys, and the A14 and A47 for east-west routes.
Central Cambridge can get very busy and parking can be expensive, so we recommend using the Park and Ride service (see 'Park and Ride' above).
There are a limited number of parking spaces on campus for Blue Badge holders (book in advance by emailing [email protected]).
For general parking the Queen Anne and Grafton Street multi-storey car parks are both five minutes’ walk away and there is a short-stay car park opposite our campus on Adam and Eve Street. Students, staff and visitors should not park in the residential streets around the campus. See the Cambridge City Council website for locations and prices of car parks.