Parker’s Piece
Parker's Piece is a 25-acre flat and roughly square green common located near the centre of Cambridge, England, regarded by some as the birthplace of the rules of association football.Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Reality Checkpoint and Emmanuel College.
Reality Checkpoint
Photo: Rich257, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Reality Checkpoint is the humorous nickname of a large cast-iron lamppost in the middle of Parker's Piece, Cambridge, England, at the intersection of the park's diagonal paths.
Emmanuel College
University
Photo: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. Emmanuel College is situated 910 feet northwest of Parker’s Piece.
Downing College
University
Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 950 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to the university between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the oldest of the new colleges and the newest of the old. Downing College is situated 1,100 feet southwest of Parker’s Piece.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Highsett and Cambridge.
Highsett
Neighborhood
Photo: Dr Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Highsett is a residential estate and a listed heritage site in Cambridge, England. The estate was designed by Eric Lyons of Eric Lyons & Partners. It was built in three phases between 1959 and 1964.
Cambridge
Photo: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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.
Parker’s Piece
- Type: Park
- Description: common in Cambridge, England
- Categories: sports venue, common land, urban park, and recreation area
- Location: Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.20199° or 52° 12′ 7″ northLongitude
0.12817° or 0° 7′ 41″ eastOpen location code
9F42642H+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
way 3218253OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata ID
Q130559
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Persian—“Parker’s Piece” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “帕克公园”
- Chinese: “帕克公園”
- Japanese: “パーカーズ・ピース”
- Persian: “پارکرز پیس”
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