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Christ's Pieces or Christ's Piece is a
, Cambridge City Council, England.Allan Brigham,
Christ's Pieces: A year on a Cambridge park in pictures
'. The area acts as an important publicly accessible open grassed area for the city centre. It is east of Christ's College and to the north of Emmanuel College. To the north is King Street, to the east is Emmanuel Road, to the south is Drummer Street, and to the west is Milton's Walk. The park is used by pedestrians walking between the centre of the city and the Grafton Centre (a shopping centre). In good weather, it is often used as a place for lunch outside as well. There are
Two Libyan soldiers charged with rape in Cambridge - BBC News
/ref> A spokesman for the
Image:Christ's Pieces snowy path.JPG, Snowy path through Christ's Pieces
Image:Bowls on Christs Pieces.JPG, Bowls on the bowling green
Christ's Pieces or Christ's Piece is a Victorian
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park in the east of central Cambridge
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, Cambridgeshire
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, England
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, with flower beds, ornamental trees and a memorial garden to Diana, Princess of Wales.Christ's Pieces, Cambridge City Council, England.Allan Brigham,
Christ's Pieces: A year on a Cambridge park in pictures
'. The area acts as an important publicly accessible open grassed area for the city centre. It is east of Christ's College and to the north of Emmanuel College. To the north is King Street, to the east is Emmanuel Road, to the south is Drummer Street, and to the west is Milton's Walk. The park is used by pedestrians walking between the centre of the city and the Grafton Centre (a shopping centre). In good weather, it is often used as a place for lunch outside as well. There are
tennis court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be ...
s at the northwest corner of Christ's Pieces and a bowling green
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.
Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep ...
in the southeast corner. The main central Cambridge bus station is north off Drummer Street on the southern edge of Christ's Pieces near the southwest corner.
There is a Christ's Pieces Residents Association (CPRA) for local residents and others interested in maintaining the character of the surrounding area.
History
Previously, the area was farmland. For example, it is shown to have a cereal crop on a 1574 map. Later it became pasture land. Milton's Walk was a medieval lane, called "Christes Colledge Walke" in 1574. Milton's Walk is named after the poetJohn Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem ''Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and polit ...
(1608–74), who was an undergraduate at Christ's College. It marks the boundary of the college with Christ's Pieces.
In 1886, the land was bought from Jesus College by the Corporation of Cambridge for £1,000 (). The Corporation drained it better and created the park much as it is now, but a proposed artificial lake was never created and the bandstand
A bandstand (sometimes music kiosk) is a circular, semicircular or polygonal structure set in a park, garden, pier, or indoor space, designed to accommodate musical bands performing concerts. A simple construction, it both creates an orname ...
no longer exists.
In 2013, its paths were used in a trial of "Starpath", which absorbs UV energy during the day and emits it at night to illuminate the path.
On 15 May 2015, two Libyan cadets, who had been stationed in the nearby Bassingbourn Barracks, were each jailed for 12 years for raping a man in the park./ref> A spokesman for the
employer
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said it condemned the behaviour and that related training will not be repeated at Bassingbourn.
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See also
*Jesus Green
Jesus Green is a park in the north of central Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, north of Jesus College. Jesus Ditch runs along the southern edge Jesus Green. On the northern edge of Jesus Green is the River Cam, with Chesterton Road (the ...
* Parker's Piece
Parker's Piece is a flat and roughly square green common located near the centre of Cambridge, England, regarded by some as the birthplace of the rules of association football. The two main walking and cycling paths across it run diagonally, an ...
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