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Cambridge’s oldest hotel is also one of its most elegant. University Arms dates from 1834 and is sheer class, from the marble columns in the coach gate entrance to the sumptuous and extremely ...
New Museums was the second university departmental site, after the Old Schools (near the Senate House), and the university's first science site. [1] Several important scientific developments of the 19th and 20th centuries were made at the New Museums Site, mainly at the Old Cavendish Laboratory, including the discoveries of the electron by J. J. Thomson (1897) and the neutron by Chadwick (1932 ...
It is a major tourist area in Cambridge, commanding a central position in the University of Cambridge area of the city. It is also a place frequented by many cyclists and by students travelling between lectures during term-time.
The Sidgwick Site is located on the western side of Cambridge city centre, near the Backs. The site is north of Sidgwick Avenue and south of West Road, and is home to several of the university's arts and humanities faculties. The site is named after the philosopher Henry Sidgwick, who studied at Cambridge in the 19th century. [3]
Cambridge's two universities, [154] the collegiate University of Cambridge and the local campus of Anglia Ruskin University, serve around 30,000 students, by some estimates. [155] Cambridge University stated its 2020/21 student population was 24,270, [ 156 ] and Anglia Ruskin reports 24,000 students across its two campuses (one of which is ...
Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Cambridge" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... University of Cambridge; Cambridge Castle;
The Cambridge University Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located in Cambridge, England, associated with the university Department of Plant Sciences (formerly Botany School). [2] [3] It lies between Trumpington Road to the west, Bateman Street to the north and Hills Road to the east. The garden covers an area of 16 hectares (40 acres). [4]
After Cambridge was described as a studium generale in a letter from Pope Nicholas IV in 1290, [22] and confirmed as such by Pope John XXII's 1318 papal bull, [23] it became common for researchers from other European medieval universities to visit Cambridge to study or give lecture courses. [22]