Lucy Cavendish College

Lucy Cavendish College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1965 as a women's college and since 2021 has admitted both women and men.

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Type: University
Description: college of the University of Cambridge
Also known as: “Lucy Cavendish College (University of Cambridge)” and “Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge”
Address: Cambridge, CB3 0BU

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Trinity College and St Edmund’s College.

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 2,000 feet southeast of Lucy Cavendish College.

St Edmund’s 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. St Edmund’s College is situated 630 feet north of Lucy Cavendish 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 1,100 feet north of Lucy Cavendish College.

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.