West Cambridge
West Cambridge is a university site to the west of Cambridge city centre in England. As part of the West Cambridge Master Plan, several of the University of Cambridge's departments have relocated to the West Cambridge site from the centre of town due to overcrowding.- Type: University
- Description: area of Cambridge University
- Also known as: “Cambridge West” and “West Cambridge Site”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include University of Cambridge Sports Centre and Trinity College.
University of Cambridge Sports Centre
Sports venue
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The University of Cambridge Sports Centre is the Cambridge's main sporting facility. It is managed by Nick Brooking. University of Cambridge Sports Centre is situated 950 feet south of West Cambridge.
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 1¼ miles east of West Cambridge.
Churchill College
University
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Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities. Churchill College is situated 3,200 feet east of West Cambridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eddington and Coton.
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.
Coton
Village
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Coton is a small village and civil parish about three miles west of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England and about the same distance east of the Prime Meridian.
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.
West Cambridge
- Categories: campus and education
- Location: Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.2107° or 52° 12′ 39″ northLongitude
0.0865° or 0° 5′ 11″ eastOperator
University of CambridgeOpen location code
9F42636P+7HOpenStreetMap ID
way 164365655OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=universityWikidata ID
Q7984639
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“West Cambridge” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “剑桥西区”
- German: “West Cambridge”
- Yue Chinese: “劍橋西區”
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