High Street, Cambridge is located at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Added by Jopie, at 01 January 2020

Trinity Street is a street in central Cambridge, England. The street continues north as St John's Street, and south as King's Parade and then Trumpington Street.The street is named after Trinity College, which is on its west side. Also on the street, just to the south, is Gonville and Caius College. St Michael's and St Mary's Courts in Gonville and Caius lie across Trinity Street on land surrounding St Michael's Church. St Michael's Court was completed in the 1930s when its south side was built.Trinity Lane leads off Trinity Street to the west, between Trinity College and Gonville and Caius, turning south around the back of Gonville and Caius, and leading to Trinity Hall and Clare College.Heffers bookshop is on the east side of Trinity Street. It is now part of Blackwell's.HistoryMichaelhouse, a former college of the University of Cambridge, was established on Michaelmas Day 1324. It was named after the parish church of St Michael on the magna strata or High Street, as Trinity Street was then known. Michaelhouse was combined with King's Hall to form Trinity College in 1546.