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by the Corporation of Cambridge for £1,000 (equivalent to £140,000 in 2023). The Corporation drained it better and created the park much as it is now, but a proposed artificial lake was never created and the
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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.
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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.
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is north off Drummer Street on the southern edge of Christ's Pieces near the southwest corner.
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On 15 May 2015, two Libyan cadets, who had been stationed in the nearby
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is used by pedestrians walking between the centre of the city and the
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Two Libyan soldiers charged with rape in Cambridge - BBC News
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Christ's Pieces: A year on a Cambridge park in pictures
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Cambridge bus station

Victorian
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
England
Diana, Princess of Wales
Christ's College
Emmanuel College
King Street
Emmanuel Road
park
Grafton Centre
tennis courts
bowling green
John Milton
Jesus College
bandstand
Bassingbourn Barracks
Snowy path through Christ's Pieces
Bowls on the bowling green


Jesus Green
Parker's Piece


Christ's Pieces
Archived
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