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Selwyn College

Selwyn College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1882 by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of George Augustus Selwyn, the first Bishop of New Zealand, and subsequently Bishop of Lichfield.
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  • Type: University
  • Description: college of the University of Cambridge
  • Also known as: “Selwyn College (University of Cambridge)” and “Selwyn College, Cambridge”
  • Address: Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DQ
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Trinity College and King’s College.

University
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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. is situated 2,700 feet northeast of Selwyn College.

University
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King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city. is situated 2,000 feet northeast of Selwyn College.

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1966 by , is a college for advanced study, admitting only postgraduate students alongside postdoctoral researchers and fellows. is situated 1,100 feet northwest of Selwyn College.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newnham and Cambridge.

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.

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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.

Locality
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Skaters' Meadow is a 2-hectare nature reserve in Newnham Croft, , UK. It is owned by Cambridge Past, Present & Future and leased for management by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

Selwyn College

Latitude
52.20153° or 52° 12′ 6″ north
Longitude
0.10686° or 0° 6′ 25″ east
Operator
Selwyn College (University of Cambridge)
Open location code
9F426424+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 3997883
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­university
Wiki­data ID
Q767650
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Selwyn College” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սելվին Քոլեջ”
  • Belarusian: “Сэлўін каледж”
  • Catalan: “Selwyn College, Cambridge”
  • Catalan: “Selwyn College”
  • Chinese: “剑桥大学塞尔文学院”
  • Chinese: “劍橋大學塞爾溫學院”
  • Chinese: “劍橋大學素雲學院”
  • Dutch: “Selwyn College”
  • Esperanto: “Kolegio Selwyn”
  • Finnish: “Selwyn College”
  • French: “Selwyn College”
  • Galician: “Selwyn College”
  • German: “Selwyn College”
  • Hebrew: “סלוויין קולג‘, קיימברידג’”
  • Irish: “Coláiste Selwyn, Cambridge”
  • Italian: “Selwyn College”
  • Japanese: “セルウィン・カレッジ”
  • Latin: “Collegium Selwyn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Selwyn College”
  • Russian: “колледж Селвин”
  • Russian: “Селвин-колледж”
  • Scots: “Selwyn College”
  • Spanish: “Colegio Selwyn”
  • Spanish: “Selwyn College”
  • Swedish: “Selwyn College”
  • Urdu: “سیلون کالج، کیمبرج”
  • Welsh: “Coleg Selwyn, Caergrawnt”
  • Welsh: “Coleg Selwyn”

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Highlights include Selwyn College Gardens and Lower Lawn.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Selwyn College”. Photo: Huangcjz, Public domain.