Trumpington Road

{{Short description|Arterial road in Cambridge, UK}}

{{distinguish|Trumpington Street|Trumpington High Street}}

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File:The Leys School, Cambridge.JPG, west of the Trumpington Road.]]

Trumpington Road is an arterial road (part of the A1134) in southeast central Cambridge, England.[http://www.cambridgeonline.co.uk/streets/Trumpington_Road/ Trumpington Road], [http://www.cambridgeonline.co.uk/ Cambridge Online]. It runs between the junction of Trumpington Street and Lensfield Road at the northern end to the junction of the High Street in the village of Trumpington (the A1309) and Long Road at the southern end. The Fen Causeway leads off to the west near the northern end, over Coe Fen and the River Cam.[http://www.cambridge2000.com/cambridge2000/html/0005/P5140909.html Trumpington Road], [http://www.cambridge2000.com/ Cambridge 2000].

There are several schools on Trumpington Road:

The Cambridge University Botanic Garden is to the east of Trumpington Road.{{cite web|url=http://www.plcane.clara.net/cambridge/hobsons.htm|title=Hobson's Conduit and the Botanical Gardens|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711215451/http://www.plcane.clara.net/cambridge/hobsons.htm|archivedate=11 July 2006|df=dmy-all}}

Hobson's Conduit

Hobson's Conduit runs along the northern part of Trumpington Road.[http://www.cambridge2000.com/cambridge2000/html/0012/PC152935.html Trumpington Road: Hobson's Conduit], [http://www.cambridge2000.com/ Cambridge 2000]. This used to be an important water supply for Cambridge.{{cite web|url=http://www.iankitching.me.uk/history/cam/hobsons-conduit.html|title=Hobson's Conduit|author=Robert MacMillan}}

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|Hobson's Conduit 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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Category:Streets in Cambridge

Category:Transport in Cambridge

Category:Roads in Cambridgeshire