Eddington
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: area in Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Eddington, Cambridge”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Traveller’s Rest Pit and Girton College.
Traveller’s Rest Pit
Protected area
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Traveller's Rest Pit is a 2.2-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the western outskirts of Cambridge. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
Girton College
University
Photo: Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
Girton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college at Cambridge.
Churchill College
University
Photo: David Gruar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cambridge Castle and Coton.
Cambridge Castle
Locality
Cambridge Castle, locally also known as Castle Mound, is located in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Originally built after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 to control the strategically important route to the north of England, it played a role in the conflicts of the Anarchy, the First and Second Barons' Wars.
Coton
Village
Photo: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coton is a small village and civil parish about three miles west of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England and about the same distance east of the Prime Meridian.
Girton
Village
Girton is a village and civil parish of about 1,600 households, and 4,500 people, in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 2 miles to the northwest of Cambridge, and is the home of Girton College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Girton is situated 1½ miles north of Eddington.
Eddington
- Category: locality
- Location: Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.21828° or 52° 13′ 6″ northLongitude
0.08694° or 0° 5′ 13″ eastElevation
56 feet (17 metres)Open location code
9F42639P+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 5073034382OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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- Dutch: “Eddington”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Eddington”. Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 4.0.