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Sidney Sussex College

Sidney Sussex College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded in 1596 under the terms of the will of Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex, wife of Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, and named after its foundress.
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  • Type: University
  • Description: constituent college of the University of Cambridge
  • Also known as: “Sidney”, “Sidney Sussex College (University of Cambridge)”, and “Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge”
  • Address: Sidney Street, Cambridge, CB2 3HU

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Trinity College and Gonville and Caius College.

University
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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. is situated 1,300 feet west of Sidney Sussex College.

University
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, commonly known as Caius, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in , England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of the wealthiest. is situated 960 feet southwest of Sidney Sussex College.

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. 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. is situated 1,000 feet northeast of Sidney Sussex College.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cambridge Castle and Cambridge.

Locality
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, locally also known as Castle Mound, is located in , , 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.

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is a university city in in . 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.

Neighborhood
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is a residential estate and a listed heritage site in , . The estate was designed by Eric Lyons of Eric Lyons & Partners. It was built in three phases between 1959 and 1964.

Sidney Sussex College

Latitude
52.20749° or 52° 12′ 27″ north
Longitude
0.12075° or 0° 7′ 15″ east
Operator
Sidney Sussex College (University of Cambridge)
Open location code
9F42644C+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 135711700
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­university
Wiki­data ID
Q327116
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Sidney Sussex College” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كلية سيدني ساسكس”
  • Armenian: “Սիդնի Սասեքս քոլեջ”
  • Belarusian: “Каледж Сідні Сасекс”
  • Belarusian: “Коледж Сыдні Сасэкс”
  • Belarusian: “Сідні-Сасекс-каледж”
  • Catalan: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Chinese: “剑桥大学悉尼·苏塞克斯学院”
  • Chinese: “剑桥大学悉尼·萨塞克斯学院”
  • Chinese: “劍橋大學悉尼·薩塞克斯學院”
  • Chinese: “劍橋大學雪梨·薩塞克斯學院”
  • Czech: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Dutch: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Esperanto: “Kolegio Sidney Sussex”
  • Finnish: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • French: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Georgian: “სიდნი სასექსის კოლეჯი”
  • Greek: “Κολέγιο Σίδνεϊ-Σάσεξ”
  • Hebrew: “סידני ססקס קולג‘, אנגליה”
  • Hebrew: “סידני ססקס קולג‘”
  • Hungarian: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Irish: “Coláiste Sidney Sussex, Cambridge”
  • Italian: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Japanese: “ケンブリッジのシドニー・サセックス・カレッジ”
  • Japanese: “シドニー・サセックス・カレッジ”
  • Latin: “Collegium Sidney Sussex”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Norwegian: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Russian: “Колледж Сидни Сассекс”
  • Russian: “Сидней Сассекс колледж”
  • Russian: “Сидни-Сассекс-колледж”
  • Slovak: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Slovenian: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Spanish: “Sidney Sussex College Cambridge”
  • Spanish: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Swedish: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Tagalog: “Sidney Sussex College”
  • Tatar: “Сидни Сассекс көллияте”
  • Urdu: “سڈنی سسکس”
  • Urdu: “سڈنی سسیکس کالج، کیمبرج”
  • Welsh: “Coleg Sidney Sussex, Caergrawnt”
  • Welsh: “Coleg Sidney Sussex”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sidney Sussex Library and Master’s Garden.

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