The old High Street, now lined by Trinity and Gonville and Caius and a run of bookshops.
Trinity Street was once simply the High Street of medieval Cambridge. It picks up where King's Parade ends and carries on north into St John's Street, so for a walker the three read as a single long run past some of the grandest colleges in the city.
The street's present name comes from Trinity College, which fills the west side. Gonville and Caius College sits just to the south, and its two of its courts, named for St Michael and St Mary, spread across the road around St Michael's church; the southern range of the St Michael's court was finished in the 1930s. Between the two colleges, Trinity Lane leaves the street to the west and bends round behind Caius towards Trinity Hall and Clare College.
Trinity itself was created in 1546 when two earlier foundations were joined: Michaelhouse, set up on Michaelmas Day 1324 and named for the parish church on this very street, and King's Hall. The street has long been a bookish one. At number 1, on the corner with King's Parade, a shop has sold books since 1581; the later firms there closed in 1986 and 1992, and the site is now the Cambridge University Press bookshop. On the east side Heffers, now part of Blackwell's, is a long-standing Cambridge bookshop.
The Hawks' Club, founded in 1872 as a sportsmen's club, started out on Trinity Street before moving to All Saints' Passage by the 1890s. Running off the west end of the street, Green Street is a short shopping lane linking back to Sidney Street.
Historical names: High Street
Sources: Wikipedia: Trinity Street, Cambridge · Wikidata: Trinity Street, Cambridge (Q7842987)
A 1348 foundation refounded in 1557, with three symbolic gates and the oldest purpose-built college chapel still in use.
Henry VIII's merged foundation, with the Great Gate, Great Court and Wren Library.