Queen's Road (designated theA1134) is a major road to the west of centralCambridge, England.[1][2] It links withMadingley Road andNorthampton Street to the north and withSidgwick Avenue,Newnham Road andSilver Street to the south.
At the northern end to the west isSt John's College Sports Ground.[3]At the opposite side of the junction to the east at the southern end isDarwin College.Queens' College also backs onto the road on the east side at the southern end.
To the east areThe Backs along theRiver Cam, providing one of the best views in Cambridge of the backs of some of the biggest and oldestCambridge University colleges, includingSt John's,Trinity College,Trinity Hall,Clare College,King's College, andQueens' College. Opposite King's College,West Road leads off to the west.
In 1871,Henry Sidgwick, a Fellow ofTrinity, alongsideAnne Clough (the firstPrincipal ofNewnham College) andEleanor Balfour (Sidgwick's future wife) oversaw the purchase of 74Regent Street to house five female students who wished to attend lectures but did not live near enough to the University to do so. The following year (1872), this moved to Merton House (built c1800) on Queen's Road,[4] and in 1875 the first building for Newnham College was built at the current site on Sidgwick Avenue adjoining Queen's Road.
It is not clear whether the road was named afterQueens' College or to celebrate visits made byQueen Victoria in 1842 and 1847. The city council's placing of the apostrophe implies – at least according to more recent century conventions in respect of apostrophe usage – a preference on the part of the authorities for the second of these explanations.[5]
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