Porson Road

Porson Road is a bus stop in Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England. Porson Road is situated nearby to the recreation area Perse Preparatory School playing fields, as well as near Cambridge Lakes Golf Course.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Fitzwilliam Museum and Homerton College.

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Museum

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The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. The Fitzwilliam Museum is situated 1¼ miles north of Porson Road.

Homerton College

University

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Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Its first premises were acquired in Homerton, London in 1768, by an informal gathering of Protestant dissenters with origins in the seventeenth century. Homerton College is situated 3,700 feet east of Porson Road.

Peterhouse

University

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Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has around 300 undergraduate and 175 graduate students, and 54 fellows. Peterhouse is situated 1¼ miles north of Porson Road.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trumpington and Skaters’ Meadow.

Trumpington

Suburb

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Trumpington is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, mostly located in Cambridge, with a small southern area of the village extending into the South Cambridgeshire district.

Skaters’ Meadow

Locality

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Skaters' Meadow is a 2-hectare nature reserve in Newnham Croft, Cambridge, UK. It is owned by Cambridge Past, Present & Future and leased for management by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.