Madingley Road

Madingley Road is a major arterial road linking central Cambridge, England with Junction 13 of the M11 motorway.[3] It passes by West Cambridge, a major new site where some University of Cambridge departments are being relocated.

Rare semi-mature Plot elms, near the Madingley Road Park and Ride, Cambridge, 2013[1][2]

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.[4]

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

Buildings

The following are located on or close to Madingley Road:

Notable residents

The following have lived on or close to Madingley Road:

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 Henry in 1913[2] and studied by R. H. Richens in 1960,[1] was destroyed by Cambridge City Council for road-widening, between about 2007 and 2014.[6]

See also

References
  1. Nature in Cambridgeshire, vol 3, 1960
  2. Elwes, Henry John; Henry, Augustine (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. 7. pp. 1901–1902, Plate 403.
  3. Madingley Road, Cambridge.
  4. Madingley Road: 25, Cambridge 2000.
  5. Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre Archived 2009-09-17 at the Wayback Machine, Schlumberger.
  6. Plot Elms on Madingley Road, Cambridge, 2006, sabre-roads.org.uk and 2013, geograph.org.uk

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