A street of pubs and restaurants running east from Sidney Sussex College, once synonymous with a student pub crawl.
King Street runs east from the meeting of Sussex Street and Hobson Street to a large roundabout, running alongside Jesus Lane on its southern flank. The two roads come together at the Four Lamps roundabout, beyond which lie Maid's Causeway and Newmarket Road. Sidney Sussex College backs onto the north-western end; Christ's College has buildings on the southern side, and Christ's Pieces is a short walk south by way of Short Street and Emmanuel Road.
Four pubs stand on the street: one at number 86 that was earlier the Horse and Groom and goes back to at least the 1830s; the Champion of the Thames at number 68, a pub since the late 1860s; the St Radegund at 129, named for a sixth-century saint and dating from 1880, on land that was once partly the Garrick Hotel; and the brewpub at number 1, now King Street Brewhouse, a building of the 1970s. A number of restaurants share the street, among them Raja, Kimchili, Your Dumplings and Yippee Noodle Bar.
The street once had many more pubs, among them the Boot, the Earl Grey, the Harp and the White Hart, and for years the name meant a pub crawl. The idea came out of a mid-1950s argument among St John's undergraduates and medical students, leading to a University club that was banned after eleven years. The Cambridge Hash House Harriers organised a combined run and crawl on the street in 1982 to mark their 200th run, and the event takes place twice a year. The street's publicans had themselves banned runs in 1975 after public disorder.
Sources: Wikipedia: King Street · Wikidata: King Street (Q6412076)
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