Murray Edwards College

Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008. The name honours a gift of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, and the first President and woman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Dame Rosemary Murray.
  • Type: University
  • Description: college of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: Murray Edwards College (University of Cambridge)”, “Murray Edwards College, Cambridge”, “New Hall”, and “New Hall College, Cambridge
  • Address: Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DF
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fitzwilliam College and St Edmund’s College.

University
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. is situated 580 feet northwest of Murray Edwards College.

University
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St Edmund's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. Founded in 1896, it is the second-oldest of the three Cambridge colleges oriented to mature students, which accept only students reading for postgraduate degrees or for undergraduate degrees if aged 21 years or older. is situated 490 feet southeast of Murray Edwards College.

University
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 3,100 feet southeast of Murray Edwards College.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cambridge Castle and Eddington.

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

Suburb
The North West Cambridge Development is a University of Cambridge site to the north west of city centre in . The development is meant to alleviate overcrowding and rising land prices in Cambridge.

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.

Murray Edwards College

Latitude
52.21414° or 52° 12′ 51″ north
Longitude
0.10767° or 0° 6′ 28″ east
Operator
Murray Edwards College (University of Cambridge)
Open location code
9F426475+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 139485561
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­university
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q1195404
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Murray Edwards College” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: كلية موراي إدواردز
  • Armenian: Մյուրեյ Էդվարդս քոլեջ
  • Catalan: Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
  • Catalan: Murray Edwards College
  • Chinese: 剑桥大学新大厅学院
  • Chinese: 剑桥大学默里·爱德华兹学院
  • Chinese: 劍橋大學默里·愛德華茲學院
  • Dutch: Murray Edwards College
  • Esperanto: Kolegio Murray Edwards
  • Finnish: Murray Edwards College
  • Finnish: New Hall
  • French: Murray Edwards College
  • German: Murray Edwards College
  • Hebrew: מורי אדוארדס קולג‘, קיימברידג’
  • Irish: Coláiste Murray Edwards, Cambridge
  • Italian: Murray Edwards College
  • Japanese: ケンブリッジ大学マーレイ・エドワーズ校
  • Japanese: ケンブリッジ大学マレー・エドワーズ・カレッジ
  • Japanese: マレー・エドワーズ・カレッジ
  • Latin: Collegium Murray Edwards
  • Norwegian Bokmål: New Hall
  • Norwegian: New Hall
  • Russian: Колледж Мюррей Эдвардс
  • Spanish: Murray Edwards College
  • Swedish: Murray Edwards College
  • Turkish: Murray Edwards Koleji
  • Ukrainian: Коледж Мюррей — Едвардс
  • Ukrainian: Коледж Мюррей Едвардс
  • Urdu: نیو ہال، کیمبرج
  • Urdu: نیو ہال
  • Vietnamese: Cao đẳng Murray Edwards
  • Welsh: Coleg Murray Edwards, Caergrawnt
  • Welsh: Neuadd Newydd
  • Western Panjabi: مرے ایڈورڈز کالج، کیمبرج

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Highlights include Rosemary Murray Garden and Murray Edwards College Library.

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