Limekiln Close and East Pit
Limekiln Close and East Pit is a 10 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Cherry Hinton, on the south-eastern outskirts of Cambridge. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire as Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits.Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: park in United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Lime Kiln Close”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cambridge International Airport and Cambridge Railway Station.
Cambridge International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: My another account, CC0.
Cambridge City Airport — previously Marshall Airport Cambridge UK — is a regional airport in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the eastern outskirts of Cambridge, south of Newmarket Road and west of the village of Teversham, 1.5 NM from the centre of Cambridge and approximately 50 mi from London.
Cambridge Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cambridge railway station is the principal station serving the city of Cambridge, in Cambridgeshire, England. Situated at the end of Station Road, it is 1 mile south-east of the city centre.
Homerton College
University
Photo: Franman247, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Its first premises were acquired in Homerton, London in 1768, by an informal gathering of Protestant dissenters with origins in the seventeenth century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cambridge and Fulbourn.
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.
Fulbourn
Village
Photo: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fulbourn is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, with evidence of settlement dating back to Neolithic times. The village was probably established under its current name by 1200.
Cherry Hinton
Suburb
Photo: Pete Saunders, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cherry Hinton is a village and electoral ward in Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. As of the 2021 UK census, the ward's population was 9,343 people.
Limekiln Close and East Pit
- Categories: park, forest, and recreation area
- Location: Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.1828° or 52° 10′ 58″ northLongitude
0.1715° or 0° 10′ 17″ eastOperator
Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and NorthantsOpen location code
9F4255MC+4JOpenStreetMap ID
way 42760457OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodWikidata ID
Q28450743
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