Histon Road Cemetery
Histon Road Cemetery, formerly Cambridge General Cemetery, is a cemetery in north Cambridge, England, lying off Histon Road, opened in 1842. It is notable as one of only three designs by John Claudius Loudon, who covers it in detail in his influential book…Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Cambridge, England
- Also known as: “Cambridge General Cemetery” and “Histon Road Cemetery, Cambridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Murray Edwards College and Trinity College.
Murray Edwards College
University
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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. Murray Edwards College is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Histon Road Cemetery.
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 3,400 feet south of Histon Road Cemetery.
Fitzwilliam College
University
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Fitzwilliam College 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. Fitzwilliam College is situated 1,600 feet west of Histon Road Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cambridge Castle and Eddington.
Cambridge Castle
Locality
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.
Eddington
Suburb
Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The North West Cambridge Development is a University of Cambridge site to the north west of Cambridge city centre in England. The development is meant to alleviate overcrowding and rising land prices in Cambridge.
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.
Histon Road Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.21604° or 52° 12′ 58″ northLongitude
0.11265° or 0° 6′ 46″ eastOpen location code
9F426487+C3OpenStreetMap ID
way 148815872OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q5773122
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