West Pit
West Pit is a 4.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Cherry Hinton, on the south-eastern outskirts of Cambridge. It is part of the Cherry Hinton Pit biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, which includes the neighbouring East Pit.Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cambridge Railway Station and Homerton College.
Cambridge Railway Station
Railway station
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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
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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.
Cambridge International Airport
Aerodrome
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cambridge and Trumpington.
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.
Trumpington
Suburb
Photo: Steve.kimberley, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Trumpington is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, mostly located in Cambridge, with a small southern area of the village extending into the South Cambridgeshire district.
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.
West Pit
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: park in United Kingdom
- Categories: park, forest, and recreation area
- Location: Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.1799° or 52° 10′ 48″ northLongitude
0.1673° or 0° 10′ 2″ eastOperator
Cambridge City CouncilOpen location code
9F4255H8+XWOpenStreetMap ID
way 684624780OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodWikidata ID
Q28450761
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