The Cloisters

The Cloisters is in Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England. Access is restricted and requires permission. The Cloisters is situated nearby to the university Trinity College, as well as near the grassland Scholars‘ Lawn.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Trinity College and Trinity Hall.

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 Hall

University

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Trinity Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been established in 1350 by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, to train clergymen in canon law after the Black Death. Trinity Hall is situated 460 feet south of The Cloisters.

Gonville and Caius College

University

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Gonville and Caius College, commonly known as Caius, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of the wealthiest. Gonville and Caius College is situated 620 feet southeast of The Cloisters.

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.