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Huntingdon Road is a major

arterial road An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road that sits below freeways/motorways on the road hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed. The primary function of an arterial road is to deliver traffic from collector ro ...

linking 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 ...

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with Junction 14 of the

M11 motorway The M11 is a motorway that runs north from the North Circular Road (A406) in South Woodford to the A14, northwest of Cambridge, England. Originally proposed as a trunk road as early as 1915, various plans were considered throughout the 1960s ...

and the A14 northwest from the city centre. The road is designated the A1307, follows the route of the Roman

Via Devana Via Devana is the name given to a Roman Road in England that ran from Colchester in the south-east, through Cambridge in the interior, and on to Chester in the north-west. These were important Roman military centres and it is conjectured that the ...

, and is named after the town of

Huntingdon Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district in Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver Cromwell was born there ...

, northwest of Cambridge. At the southeastern end, the road links with Histon Road (B1049), Victoria Road ( A1134) and Mount Pleasant. It continues as Castle Street, then

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 ...

over the

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, at Pope's Corner. The total distance from Cambridge to ...

and Bridge Street, into the centre of the city. The

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

colleges

Fitzwilliam College Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all ...

(front entrance on

Storey's Way Storey's Way is a mainly residential road, approximately 650 metres to the west of the city centre in Cambridge, England. It falls within the Castle Electoral Ward of Cambridge City Council, and feeds on to the major arterial roads Huntingdon ...

, south off Huntingdon Road),

Girton College Girton College is one of the Colleges of the University of Cambridge, 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college in Cambridge. In 1 ...

, and

Murray Edwards College Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall. In 2008, following a donation of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, it was renamed Murray Edwar ...

(formerly New Hall), are located off the road. Girton College is some distance from central Cambridge as a former women's college, just south of the village of Girton. Also on the road are: *

Ascension Parish Burial Ground The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly known as the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's, is a cemetery off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge, England. Many notable University of Cambridge academics are buried there, includi ...

, where many Cambridge academics are buried * Cambridge Seed Testing Station * Cambridge Genetics Station * Trinity Hall Sports Ground * The

National Institute of Agricultural Botany The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) is a plant science research company based in Cambridge, UK. The NIAB group The NIAB group consists of: * NIAB * NIAB EMR - a horticultural and agricultural research institute at East M ...

(NIAB) * Number 173 Huntingdon Road is 'the Kaptiza House', build by

Pyotr Kapitsa Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița ( – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics ...

, the

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and Nobel laureate The Kapitza House
/ref> * The northern access to Eddington, a new settlement under construction by the University

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Image:2003 0607 170338AA.jpg, Main hall of

at the southeast end of Huntingdon Road. Image:2003_0131_170451AA.jpg, Fitzwilliam College sign on Huntingdon Road (removed to make way for building works, May 2008). Image:KaetsuCentreCambridge.jpg, Kaetsu Centre of

, on the Huntingdon Road, also at the southeast end.

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