Downing College

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.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: University
  • Description: college of the University of Cambridge
  • Also known as: “Downing College (University of Cambridge)” and “Downing College, Cambridge”
  • Address: Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DQ

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Fitzwilliam Museum and Peterhouse.

Museum
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is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central . is situated 1,000 feet west of Downing College.

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. has around 300 undergraduate and 175 graduate students, and 54 fellows. is situated 1,200 feet west of Downing College.

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has more than 700 students and fellows. is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Downing College.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cambridge and Highsett.

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is a university city in in . 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.

Neighborhood
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is a residential estate and a listed heritage site in , . The estate was designed by Eric Lyons of Eric Lyons & Partners. It was built in three phases between 1959 and 1964.

Suburb
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is a suburb and electoral ward in , England. As of the 2021 UK census, the ward had a population of 11,374.

Downing College

Latitude
52.2001° or 52° 12′ 0″ north
Longitude
0.12434° or 0° 7′ 28″ east
Operator
Downing College (University of Cambridge)
Open location code
9F42642F+2P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 3993119
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­university
Wiki­data ID
Q181461
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Downing College” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كلية داونينج”
  • Armenian: “Դաունինգ քոլեջ”
  • Belarusian: “Даўнінг-Каледж”
  • Catalan: “Downing College, Cambridge”
  • Chinese: “剑桥大学唐宁学院”
  • Czech: “Downingova kolej”
  • Dutch: “Downing College”
  • Esperanto: “Kolegio Downing”
  • Finnish: “Downing College”
  • French: “Downing College”
  • German: “Downing College”
  • Greek: “Κολέγιο Ντάουνιγκ”
  • Hebrew: “דאונינג קולג‘”
  • Irish: “Coláiste Downing, Cambridge”
  • Italian: “Downing College”
  • Japanese: “ケンブリッジ大学ダウニング・カレッジ”
  • Japanese: “ダウニング・カレッジ”
  • Japanese: “ダウニング大学”
  • Latin: “Collegium Downing”
  • Luxembourgish: “Downing College”
  • Maltese: “Downing College”
  • Maltese: “Kulleġġ ta‘ Downing”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Downing College”
  • Persian: “کالج داونینگ، کمبریج”
  • Portuguese: “Downing College”
  • Russian: “Даунинг-колледж”
  • Russian: “Даунинг-Колледж”
  • Spanish: “Downing College”
  • Swedish: “Downing College”
  • Turkish: “Downing Koleji”
  • Urdu: “ڈاوننگ کالج، کیمبرج”
  • Urdu: “ڈاوننگ کالج”
  • Welsh: “Coleg Downing, Caergrawnt”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈاؤننگ کالج، کیمبرج”

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Highlights include The Paddock and The Quadrangle.

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