Cambridge & County Folk Museum - geograph

Castle Street is a street in the north of central

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

, England.Locale Castle StreetThe Open Guide to Cambridge
To the southeast is a junction with Northampton Street,

Magdalene Street Magdalene Street is a street in the north of central Cambridge, England. It runs between Castle Street, by Castle Hill, at the junction with Northampton Street and Chesterton Lane, then Chesterton Road (the A1303), to the northwest and ...

, and Chesterton Lane (leading to Chesterton Road). To the northwest is a junction with Mount Pleasant,

Huntingdon Road Huntingdon Road is a major arterial road linking central Cambridge, England with Junction 14 of the M11 motorway and the A14 northwest from the city centre. The road is designated the A1307, follows the route of the Roman Via Devana, and is n ...

(leading northwest out of Cambridge), Histon Road (leading north out of Cambridge), and Victoria Road. To the northeast is St Giles' Church, Castle Hill, the location of

Cambridge Castle Cambridge Castle, locally also known as Castle Mound, is located in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Originally built after the Norman conquest to control the strategically important route to the north of England, it played a role in the conf ...

, and the

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...

Shire Hall. To the southwest is St Peter's Church and Honey Hill. On the corner of Castle Street and Northampton Street is the

Museum of Cambridge The Museum of Cambridge, formerly known as the Cambridge & County Folk Museum, is a museum located in Castle Street in central Cambridge, England. It is housed in the former White Horse Inn, a Grade II listed 16th century former public house t ...

, formerly the Cambridge & County Folk Museum. Also here is

Kettle's Yard Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge, England. The director of the art gallery is Andrew Nairne. Both the house and gallery reopened in February 2018 after an expansion of the facilities. Kettle's Yard galleries, shop and caf ...

, a former home and now a modern

art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...

and place for reflection. St Giles' Church, St Peter's Church and

Castle Street Methodist Church Castle Street Methodist Church is a Methodist church located on Castle Street, Cambridge, England. Castle Street is one of thirteen churches in the Cambridge Methodist Circuit. It is a working church with a morning service each Sunday, and an e ...

are beside the street.Castle Street Methodist Church
The Castle Inn public house is also located here.

Gallery

Image:The Church of St Giles with St Peter, Cambridge - geograph.org.uk - 875510.jpg, St Giles' Church at the southwestern end of Chesterton Lane. Image:Castle Mound, Cambridge.jpg, Castle Mound, all that remains of

on Castle Hill near Castle Street. Image:KettlesYard.jpg, The three cottages that comprise the main house of

, near Castle Street.

References

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