Girton College
Girton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college at Cambridge.Photo: Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
- Type: University
- Description: college of the University of Cambridge
- Also known as: “Girton College (University of Cambridge)” and “Girton College, Cambridge”
- Address: Cambridge, CB3 0JG
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Traveller’s Rest Pit and Church of St Andrew.
Traveller’s Rest Pit
Protected area
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Traveller's Rest Pit is a 2.2-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the western outskirts of Cambridge. It is a Geological Conservation Review site. Traveller’s Rest Pit is situated 4,100 feet southeast of Girton College.
University of Cambridge Primary School
School
Photo: Smb1001, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The University of Cambridge Primary School is a three-form primary school in Cambridge, UK. Funded by the local education authority, it is run as a free school by the University of Cambridge and is the first University Training School for primary in the UK. University of Cambridge Primary School is situated 3,400 feet south of Girton College.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eddington and Girton.
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.
Girton
Village
Girton is a village and civil parish of about 1,600 households, and 4,500 people, in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 2 miles to the northwest of Cambridge, and is the home of Girton College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
Orchard Park
Suburb
Photo: Colin Bell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Orchard Park, previously known as Premier Park and before that Arbury Park, is a district and civil parish of South Cambridgeshire, England, contiguous with the city of Cambridge. Orchard Park is situated 1½ miles east of Girton College.
Girton College
Latitude
52.22887° or 52° 13′ 44″ northLongitude
0.08384° or 0° 5′ 2″ eastOperator
Girton College (University of Cambridge)Open location code
9F4263HM+GGOpenStreetMap ID
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Q797846
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Girton College” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كلية غريتون”
- Armenian: “Գիրթոն քոլեջ”
- Asturian: “Girton College”
- Belarusian: “Гертан-каледж”
- Catalan: “Girton College, Cambridge”
- Catalan: “Girton College”
- Chinese: “剑桥大学格顿学院”
- Chinese: “劍橋大學格頓學院”
- Czech: “Girton College”
- Dutch: “Girton College”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كليه جريتون”
- Esperanto: “Girton College”
- Esperanto: “Kolegio Girton”
- Finnish: “Girton College”
- French: “Girton College”
- Galician: “Girton College”
- Georgian: “გირტონის კოლეჯი”
- German: “Girton College”
- Greek: “Κολλέγιο Γκίρτον”
- Hebrew: “גירטון קולג‘”
- Hebrew: “גירטון קולג’”
- Irish: “Coláiste Girton, Cambridge”
- Italian: “Girton College”
- Japanese: “ガートン・カレッジ”
- Japanese: “ガートンカレッジ”
- Korean: “거턴 칼리지”
- Korean: “거튼 칼리지”
- Latin: “Collegium Girton”
- Latin: “Collegium Girtonensis”
- Luxembourgish: “Girton College”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Girton College”
- Persian: “کالج گیرتون (کمبریج)”
- Persian: “کالج گیرتون، کمبریج”
- Polish: “Girton College, Cambridge”
- Polish: “Girton College”
- Portuguese: “Girton College”
- Romanian: “Girton College”
- Russian: “Гертон-колледж”
- Russian: “Гёртон-колледж”
- Slovenian: “Girton College”
- Spanish: “Girton College Cambridge”
- Spanish: “Girton College”
- Swedish: “Girton College”
- Turkish: “Girton Koleji”
- Ukrainian: “Гертон-коледж (Кембридж)”
- Ukrainian: “Гертон-коледж”
- Urdu: “گرٹن”
- Welsh: “Coleg Girton, Caergrawnt”
- Welsh: “Coleg Girton”
- Western Panjabi: “گرٹن کالج، کیمبرج”
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