Peterhouse

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.
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  • Type: University
  • Description: college of the University of Cambridge
  • Also known as: “Peterhouse (University of Cambridge)”, “Peterhouse, Cambridge”, “St Peter’s, Cambridge”, “St Peters, Cambridge”, “St. Peter’s, Cambridge”, and “St. Peters, Cambridge”
  • Address: Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RD

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Fitzwilliam Museum and Pembroke College.

Museum
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is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central .

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. is situated 820 feet north of Peterhouse.

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th century to the early 19th century it was also commonly known as Bene't College. is situated 1,200 feet north of Peterhouse.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cambridge and Newnham.

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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.

Suburb
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is a suburb and electoral ward in , England. As of the 2021 UK census, the ward had a population of 11,374.

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.

Peterhouse

Latitude
52.19975° or 52° 11′ 59″ north
Longitude
0.11908° or 0° 7′ 9″ east
Operator
Peterhouse (University of Cambridge)
Open location code
9F4254X9+WJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 135942778
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­university
Wiki­data ID
Q650068
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Peterhouse” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيترهاوس”
  • Armenian: “Փիթերհաուս”
  • Bashkir: “Изге Петр колледжы”
  • Basque: “Peterhouse”
  • Belarusian: “каледж св. Пятра”
  • Belarusian: “каледж Сьвятога Пятра”
  • Catalan: “Peterhouse (Universitat de Cambridge)”
  • Catalan: “Peterhouse”
  • Central Kurdish: “پیتەرھاوس”
  • Chinese: “剑桥大学彼得学院”
  • Chinese: “彼得学院”
  • Czech: “Peterhouse”
  • Danish: “Peterhouse”
  • Dutch: “Peterhouse”
  • Esperanto: “Petrodomo”
  • Faroese: “Peterhouse”
  • Finnish: “Peterhouse”
  • French: “Peterhouse”
  • Galician: “Peterhouse”
  • Georgian: “პიტერჰაუზი”
  • German: “Peterhouse”
  • Greek: “Πίτερχαους, Κέιμπριτζ”
  • Hebrew: “קולג‘ פרטהאוס”
  • Icelandic: “Peterhouse”
  • Irish: “Peterhouse, Cambridge”
  • Irish: “Peterhouse”
  • Italian: “Peterhouse”
  • Japanese: “ピーターハウス (ケンブリッジ)”
  • Japanese: “ピーターハウス (ケンブリッジ大学)”
  • Japanese: “ピーターハウス・カレッジ”
  • Japanese: “ピーターハウス・ケンブリッジ”
  • Japanese: “ピーターハウス”
  • Kalaallisut: “Peterhouse”
  • Korean: “피터하우스, 케임브리지”
  • Korean: “피터하우스”
  • Latin: “Collegium Petri”
  • Luxembourgish: “Peterhouse”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peterhouse”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peterhouse”
  • Norwegian: “Peterhouse”
  • Polish: “Peterhouse”
  • Portuguese: “Peterhouse”
  • Russian: “Колледж святого Петра”
  • Russian: “Питерхаус”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Peterhouse, Cambridge”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Peterhouse”
  • Slovenian: “Peterhouse”
  • Spanish: “Peterhouse”
  • Swedish: “Peterhouse”
  • Tajik: “Питерҳаус”
  • Tamil: “பீட்டர்ஹவுஸ், கேம்பிரிச்சு”
  • Tamil: “பீட்டர்ஹவுஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Изге Питер көллияте”
  • Turkish: “Peterhouse”
  • Ukrainian: “Коледж св. Петра”
  • Ukrainian: “Пітерхауз”
  • Urdu: “پیٹر ہاؤس، کیمبرج”
  • Urdu: “پیٹر ہاؤس”
  • Welsh: “Peterhouse, Caergrawnt”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیٹر ہاؤس، کیمبرج”

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