The A1307 north-west out of Cambridge, following a Roman route, with Girton and Murray Edwards on its way.
The A1307 leaves Cambridge to the north-west as Huntingdon Road, a major arterial route towards Junction 14 of the M11 and the A14. It takes the line of the Roman road known as the Via Devana, and its name comes from the town of Huntingdon. At the south-eastern end it meets Histon Road, Victoria Road and Mount Pleasant. Heading for the centre, the route turns into Castle Street, then Magdalene Street across the Cam, and Bridge Street.
Several colleges stand off the road. Girton College is at number 303, Murray Edwards College has its entrance on the road, and Fitzwilliam College is reached by Storey's Way. St Edmund's College has its front entrance on Mount Pleasant. Also on or off the road are the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, the Cambridge Seed Testing Station, the Trinity Hall Sports Ground and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany. The road also gives Eddington, a new settlement the university has been building, its way in from the north.
Number 173 was built by a Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate. Three of the Darwin family also lived along the road: Emma Darwin (1808-1896), Charles Darwin's widow, wintered at The Grove from 1882; Francis Darwin (1848-1925) lived at Wychfield; and Horace Darwin (1851-1928) at The Orchard. The road also features in a short story, "The Fenstanton Witch".
Sources: Wikipedia: Huntingdon Road · Wikidata: Huntingdon Road (Q5945124)
The first women's college in Cambridge, set in red-brick Waterhouse buildings and fifty acres of grounds.
A Grade II* listed 1960s concrete campus with the Dome dining hall, the Women's Art Collection and free daily entry.