Wessex Place

Wessex Place is an apartment building in Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England which is located on Magrath Avenue. Wessex Place is situated nearby to the pub Sir Isaac Newton, as well as near the archaeological site Cambridge Castle.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Trinity College and Cambridge Castle.

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 2,600 feet south of Wessex Place.

Cambridge Castle

Archaeological site

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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 Castle is situated 640 feet south of Wessex Place.

Murray Edwards College

University

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Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008. The name honours a gift of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, and the first President and woman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Dame Rosemary Murray. Murray Edwards College is situated 1,500 feet west of Wessex Place.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cambridge and Eddington.

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.

Eddington

Suburb

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The North West Cambridge Development is a University of Cambridge site to the north west of Cambridge city centre in England. The development is meant to alleviate overcrowding and rising land prices in Cambridge.