Thornton Road
Thornton Road is a bus stop in Girton, South Cambridgeshire District, England. Thornton Road is situated nearby to the recreation area Huntingdon Road Sports Fields, as well as near Anglia Ruskin University Pavilion.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Girton College and Churchill College.
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. Girton College is situated 2,400 feet northwest of Thornton Road.
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. Churchill College is situated 1 mile southeast of Thornton Road.
Fitzwilliam College
University
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Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college has origins from 1869, with the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all backgrounds a chance to study at the university. Fitzwilliam College is situated 1 mile southeast of Thornton Road.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eddington and Girton.
Eddington
Suburb
Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The North West Cambridge Development is a University of Cambridge site to the north west of Cambridge city centre in England. The development is meant to alleviate overcrowding and rising land prices in Cambridge.
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.
Cambridge Castle
Locality
Cambridge Castle, locally also known as Castle Mound, is in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. 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 and the First and Second Barons' Wars.
Thornton Road
- Type: Bus stop
- Category: transportation
- Location: Girton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.22397° or 52° 13′ 26″ northLongitude
0.09093° or 0° 5′ 27″ eastOpen location code
9F4263FR+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 533796007OpenStreetMap feature
highway=bus_stopOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=platform
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