Year after year, Oxford and Cambridge vie with other world universities for coveted top dog status. Unsurprisingly for such a concentration of brainpower, science and tech industries have blossomed in both cities over the past two decades, bringing with them an influx of young professionals on the look out for houses. Both are within an hour of London with good links of their own into the capital. What has been missing, however, is a strong transport link between the two. As anyone who has done battle with the M25 or, worse, the maze of roundabouts surrounding Milton Keynes, will tell you, travelling between Oxford and Cambridge is far from straightforward, even by road.
Many businesses based in one of the two cities will likely be complimentary, if not collaborative – but if you want to talk privately and don’t like zoom, just try typing Oxford and Cambridge into Trainline. It’ll take you not far short of three hours to get from one to the other and the best route still involves heading through the middle of London.
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