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TheDowning Site is a major site of theUniversity of Cambridge, located in the centre of the city ofCambridge,England, onDowning Street andTennis Court Road, adjacent toDowning College. The Downing Site is the larger and newer of two city-centre science sites of the university (the other being theNew Museums Site). Largely populated with utilitarian brick buildings dating from the 1930s, the more notable buildings include the Zoology Laboratory (1900–04),Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (1904–11) and Downing Street entrance (1904–11).
To the northwest is theNew Museums Site and to the southwest is theOld Addenbrooke's Site, two other important University of Cambridge sites.
The current site was part ofPembroke Leys, a boggy area of small fields lying betweenRegent Street and Tennis Court Road, to the south of the medieval town of Cambridge. The Pembroke Leys was acquired by Downing College on its foundation, but the northern portion of the Leys remained undeveloped. This northern portion was purchased by the university in 1895 for £15,000, and now forms the Downing Site.[1]
Though several university departments have recently relocated to larger modern buildings elsewhere, the Downing Site still houses many departments, predominantly in the biomedical sciences. These include:
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