Thompsons Lane Primary Substation

Thompsons Lane Primary Substation is an electrical substation in Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England. Thompsons Lane Primary Substation is situated nearby to the university building Bright’s Building, as well as near Pepys Library.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pepys Library and Trinity College.

Pepys Library

Library

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The Pepys Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, is the personal library collected by Samuel Pepys which he bequeathed to the college following his death in 1703.

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 1,400 feet southwest of Thompsons Lane Primary Substation.

Jesus College

University

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Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Jesus College was established in 1496 on the site of the twelfth-century Benedictine nunnery of St Mary and St Radegund by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely. Jesus College is situated 1,400 feet east of Thompsons Lane Primary Substation.

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.