Castle Brae

Castle Brae is an university building in Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England. Castle Brae is situated nearby to the university Castle Court (Clare College), as well as near the locality Cambridge Castle.

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Type: University building
Description: building in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Also known as: “Castlebrae”
Address: Cambridge, CB4 3AA

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 1,800 feet south of Castle Brae.

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 540 feet southeast of Castle Brae.

St Giles’ Church, Cambridge

Church

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The Church of St Giles is a Grade II*-listed church in Cambridge, England. It is a Church of England parish church in the Parish of the Ascension of the Diocese of Ely, located on the junction of Castle Street and Chesterton Road.

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.