Thompson’s Lane hostels (Magdalene College)

Thompson’s Lane hostels (Magdalene College) is a terrace house in Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England which is located on Thompson’s Lane. Thompson’s Lane hostels (Magdalene College) is situated nearby to the synagogue Cambridge Jewish Student Centre, as well as near Quayside.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Trinity College and Pepys Library.

Trinity College

University

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Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at Oxford or Cambridge. Trinity College is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Thompson’s Lane hostels (Magdalene College).

Pepys Library

Library

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The Pepys Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, is the personal library collected by Samuel Pepys which he bequeathed to the college following his death in 1703. Pepys Library is situated 420 feet northwest of Thompson’s Lane hostels (Magdalene College).

Jesus College

University

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Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Jesus College was established in 1496 on the site of the twelfth-century Benedictine nunnery of St Mary and St Radegund by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely. Jesus College is situated 1,300 feet east of Thompson’s Lane hostels (Magdalene College).

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cambridge Castle and Cambridge.

Cambridge Castle

Locality

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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.

Cambridge

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Cambridge is a university city in Cambridgeshire in England. It is a city of crocuses and daffodils on the Backs, of green open spaces and cattle grazing only 500 yards from the market square.