Lensfield Road, Cambridge — Downing College, Scott Polar and Hobson's Conduit

Lensfield Road

A road south of the centre with Downing College, the Scott Polar Research Institute and a monument to Thomas Hobson.

From Trumpington Street / Trumpington Road To Regent Street / Hills Road City Centre 1 place listed

Lensfield Road, part of the A603, starts where Trumpington Street meets Trumpington Road and ends at Regent Street and Hills Road. Its line then carries on as Gonville Place beside Parker's Piece.

Along the road

On the south side are the Scott Polar Research Institute (Polar Museum), a primary school and the University's Department of Chemistry. At the Hills Road corner stands the church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs. On the other side, stretching from Tennis Court Road to Regent Street, is Downing College, a major landowner here; the land was once a marshy tract called Pembroke Leys, beyond the medieval town. West of Tennis Court Road is the Old Addenbrooke's Site, the hospital's original home before it relocated out to the end of Hills Road.

Hobson's Conduit

A branch of Hobson's Conduit, added in 1631 to bring water to the city's eastern side, followed Lensfield Road eastwards and turned up Regent Terrace to reach St Andrew's Street. A serious fire in 1849 led to a replacement fountain for the Market Place branch in 1855. The structure it replaced was re-erected in 1856 where Trumpington Road meets Lensfield Road, as a memorial to Thomas Hobson.

Sources: Wikipedia: Lensfield Road · Wikidata: Lensfield Road (Q6523244)

Lensfield Road

Along the road

Hobson's Conduit

On this street (Lensfield Road)

Museums

The Polar Museum

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