Huntingdon Road
Huntingdon Road is a major
A14 northwest from the city centre.[1][2] The road, designated the A1307, follows the route of the Roman Via Devana, and is named after the town of Huntingdon
, northwest of Cambridge.
At the southeastern end, the road links with
A1134) and Mount Pleasant.[3] It continues as Castle Street, then Magdalene Street over the River Cam and Bridge Street
, into the centre of the city.
The
New Hall), are located off the road. Girton College is some distance from central Cambridge as a former women's college, just south of the village of Girton
.
Also on the road are:
- Ascension Parish Burial Ground, where many Cambridge academics are buried
- Cambridge Seed Testing Station
- Cambridge Genetics Station
- Trinity Hall Sports Ground
- The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB)
- Number 173 Huntingdon Road is 'the Kaptiza House', build by Pyotr Kapitsa, the Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate [4]
- The northern access to Eddington, a new settlement under construction by the university
Gallery
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Main hall of Fitzwilliam College at the southeast end of Huntingdon Road. -
Fitzwilliam College sign on Huntingdon Road (removed to make way for building works, May 2008). -
Kaetsu Centre of Murray Edwards College, on the Huntingdon Road, also at the southeast end.
See also
- Huntingdon, a market town in Cambridgeshire, northwest of Cambridge
- Howes, a former hamlet on Huntingdon Road
- Emma Darwin, (1808-1896), widow of Charles Darwin, wintered at 'The Grove' on Huntingdon Road from 1882
- Francis Darwin, (1848-1925), lived at 'Wychfield' on Huntingdon Road
- Horace Darwin, (1851-1928), lived at 'The Orchard' on Huntingdon Road