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We are a short cycle ride away from the new University Sports Centre at West Cambridge, which offers reduced rates for student members, and excellent training facilities. The University’s athletics ground at Wilberforce Road lies close to the Sports Centre.
Newnham has many societies of its own including clubs for rowing, football, netball, tennis, and many other sports, as well as several choirs. As Newnham is a non-denominational foundation, it does not have its own chapel.
Newnham College is the lively and sociable women’s college at the heart of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1871, we are the oldest college run by women, for women. At its heart, a Cambridge college is a community of learning, teaching and research.
The site has the following facilities: Grass Pitches - Full sized Football Grass Pitches Cambridge. See below for details, opening times and more. The type of facility is listed as Higher Education Institutions.
- Clare Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AW
- enquiries@newn.cam.ac.uk
- 01223 335777
Newnham is the women’s college in the heart of Cambridge 150 years ago, a group of radicals – philosophers, campaigners, scientists, writers – came together to create a Cambridge College unlike any other.
The book describes 'the idea of Newnham', which arose from supporters of female education in the mid-nineteenth century, the parallel trajectory of the founders of Girton College, and the small beginning of what became Newnham, with five students in a house overlooking Parker's Piece in 1871.
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Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicent Garrett Fawcett.
