Trumpington Road is an arterial road (part of the A1134) in southeast central

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. It runs between the junction of

Trumpington Street Trumpington Street is a major historic street in central Cambridge, England. At the north end it continues as King's Parade where King's College is located. To the south it continues as Trumpington Road (the A1134), an arterial route out ...

and

Lensfield Road Lensfield Road is a road (part of the A603 road, A603) in southeast central Cambridge, England. It runs between the junction of Trumpington Street and Trumpington Road to the west and the junction of Regent Street, Cambridge, Regent Street and ...

at the northern end to the junction of the High Street in the village of

Trumpington Trumpington is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, mostly located in Cambridge, with a small southern area of the village extending into the South Cambridgeshire district. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 UK census, the village had ...

(the A1309) and Long Road at the southern end. The

Fen Causeway Fen Causeway or the Fen Road is the modern name for a Roman road of England that runs between Denver, Norfolk in the east and Peterborough in the west.Phillips, C.W. ''The Fenland in Roman Times''. Royal Geographical Society (1970). Its path c ...

leads off to the west near the northern end, over

Coe Fen Coe Fen is a semi-rural meadowland area to the east of the River Cam in the south of the city of Cambridge, England.River Cam The River Cam () is the main river flowing through Cambridge in eastern England. After leaving Cambridge, it flows north and east before joining the River Great Ouse to the south of Ely, Cambridgeshire, Ely, at Pope's Corner. The total distanc ...

. There are several schools on Trumpington Road: *

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* Mander Portman Woodward VI Form College * The Perse Preparatory School *

St Faith's School St Faith's School is a private preparatory day school on Trumpington Road, Cambridge, England, for girls and boys aged four to thirteen. The headmaster is Crispin Hyde-Dunn. The school has more than five hundred children. St Faith's is part of ...

The

Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Cambridge University Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located in Cambridge, England, associated with the university Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences (formerly Botany School). It lies be ...

is to the east of Trumpington Road.

Hobson's Conduit

Hobson's Conduit Hobson's Conduit, also called Hobson's Brook, is a watercourse that was built from 1610 to 1614 by Thomas Hobson and others to bring fresh water into the city of Cambridge, England from springs at Nine Wells, a Local Nature Reserve (), near t ...

runs along the northern part of Trumpington Road. This used to be an important

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for Cambridge. A major fire in 1849 meant that a new fountain for the Market Place branch of Hobson's Conduit was erected in 1855. The previous structure was moved to the corner of Trumpington Road and Lensfield Road in 1856 as a monument to Thomas Hobson. Image:Hobson'sconduit1.JPG,

as it runs along the side of Trumpington Road. Image:Hobson'sconduit4.JPG, Hobson's Conduit on Brookside, next to Trumpington Road. Image:Hobson'sconduit2.JPG, Monument to Thomas Hobson, at the northern end of Trumpington Road.

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