Madingley 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

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with Junction 13 of the M11 motorway. It passes by

West Cambridge West Cambridge is a university site to the west of Cambridge city centre in England. As part of the ''West Cambridge Master Plan'', several of the University of Cambridge's departments have relocated to the West Cambridge site from the centre ...

, a major new site where some

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departments are being relocated. The road is designated the A1303. At the eastern end, the A1303 continues as Northampton Street, then Chesterton Lane and Chesterton Road. There is a junction with the A1134 ( Queen's Road) to the south. At the Cambridge (east) end of the road, there are a number of large detached residences. Side streets include Grange Road and

Wilberforce Road Wilberforce Road is a street in the western outskirts of Cambridge, England, which runs north–south for 550 metres, connecting Madingley Road with Adams Road, which runs eastwards to Grange Road. The road was built in 1933, although several ...

. The village of Coton is south of the western end of Madingley Road.

Buildings

The following are located on or close to Madingley Road: * AVEVA Group plc * British Antarctic Survey *

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II American military war grave cemetery, located between the villages of Coton and Madingley, north-west of Cambridge, England. The cemetery, dedicated in 1956, contains 3,811 American ...

* Cambridge Observatory * Cavendish Laboratory *

Churchill College Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but still retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities. In 1958, a trust was establish ...

, on Storey's Way *

Computer Laboratory A computer lab is a space where computer services are provided to a defined community. These are typically public libraries and academic institutions. Generally, users must follow a certain user policy to retain access to the computers. This us ...

Lucy Cavendish College Lucy Cavendish College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college is named in honour of Lucy Cavendish (1841–1925), who campaigned for the reform of women's education. History The college was founded in 1965 by ...

* Marshall House (formerly

Balliol Croft Marshall House has been the President's Lodge at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, England, since 2001. It was designed by the Scottish architect J. J. Stevenson and built in 1886. It is a Grade II listed building. In 1991 the college boug ...

) *

Microsoft Research Cambridge Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...

* Royal Greenwich Observatory * Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre * School of Veterinary Science * Cambridge University Athletics Track *

Whittle Laboratory The Whittle Laboratory has its origins in Sir Frank Whittle and a number of his original team, from Cambridge, and who in 1937 invented the jet engine. In opening the Laboratory in 1973 the aim was to develop the technology which would underpin the ...

Image:BAS hq1.jpg, British Antarctic Survey headquarters on the south side of Madingley Road. Image:Cambridge Observartory Portico.jpg, Main entrance to the Cambridge Observatory building, to the north of Madingley Road. Image:University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.jpg, The

University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory The Department of Computer Science and Technology, formerly the Computer Laboratory, is the computer science department of the University of Cambridge. it employed 35 academic staff, 25 support staff, 35 affiliated research staff, and about 15 ...

, south of the Madingley Road. Image:Lucy cavendish college library with marshall house in the background.JPG,

library and Marshall House off Madingley Road. Image:Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre 02.jpg, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre, High Cross, Madingley Road.

Notable residents

The following have lived on or close to Madingley Road: * Authors

Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social an ...

and his son Martin Amis as a child * Author and priest

A. C. Bouquet Alan Coates Bouquet (24 May 1884 – 4 March 1976) was a minister in the Anglicanism, Anglican church, a Theology, theologian and Recognised Lecturer in the History and Comparative Study of Religions at the University of Cambridge and a prolif ...

* Inventor Clive Sinclair

Botanical

One of the last known stands in England of rare semi-mature Plot elms, the Madingley Road elms descended from those described by botanists Elwes and

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in 1913 and studied by R. H. Richens in 1960, was destroyed by

Cambridge City Council Cambridge City Council is a district council in the county of Cambridgeshire, which governs the City of Cambridge. History Cambridge was granted a Royal Charter by King John in 1207, which permitted the appointment of a mayor. The first recorde ...

for road-widening, between about 2007 and 2014.Plot Elms on Madingley Road, Cambridge, 2006, sabre-roads.org.u

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References

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Buildings

Notable residents

Botanical

See also

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