{"node_image":"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1047/1460941004_ccd75cd512_m_d.jpg","website":"","version":"6","node_image_url":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaet44/1460941004/in/photostream/","latitude":"52.20992","locales":["Midsummer Common"],"content":"Midsummer Common is a large area of common land, close to the centre of Cambridge. \n\nIt is used as a site for fairs, circuses, and similar events, throughout the year. Most prominently, Strawberry Fair is a free annual community-run festival which occurs on the common during early June each year. Along the edge of the common, beside the river, are [[Fort St George]], a public house, and [[Midsummer House]], a high-class restaurant.\n\nRed Poll beef cattle graze the common each summer; they are slaughtered in the autumn. The Red Poll, now rare, is an indigenous East Anglian breed.\n\nThe rectangular area of Midsummer Common around the Four Lamps roundabout is known as Butts Green.\n\n\n","categories":["Commons","Open Spaces","OpenStreetMap GeoData"],"longitude":"0.12930","phone":"","postcode":"","address":"","version_indpt_url":"http://cambridge.openguides.org/wiki/Midsummer_Common","node_image_licence":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/","username":"Kaet","os_x":"","fax":"","formatted_content":"
Midsummer Common is a large area of common land, close to the centre of Cambridge.
\nIt is used as a site for fairs, circuses, and similar events, throughout the year. Most prominently, Strawberry Fair is a free annual community-run festival which occurs on the common during early June each year. Along the edge of the common, beside the river, are Fort St George, a public house, and Midsummer House, a high-class restaurant.
\nRed Poll beef cattle graze the common each summer; they are slaughtered in the autumn. The Red Poll, now rare, is an indigenous East Anglian breed.
\nThe rectangular area of Midsummer Common around the Four Lamps roundabout is known as Butts Green.
\n\n","url":"http://cambridge.openguides.org/wiki/id=Midsummer_Common;version=6","city":"Cambridge","country":"United Kingdom","timestamp":"2007-10-13T23:03:56","summary":"Large area of common land, close to the city centre and adjacent to Jesus Green.","os_y":"","opening_hours_text":""}