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The Mill Road Winter Fair is an annual fair on the first Saturday in December. Attendance grew from 10,000 at the first fair in 2005 to at least 20,000 in 2009. Since 2009 part of Mill Road, including the bridge, has been closed to traffic for the duration of the fair. Regular activities include a
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that stood at what is now the corner of Covent Garden. The coming of the railways in the mid-19th century brought about a rapid development of the eastern part of the city after the University of Cambridge repeatedly blocked attempts to build a more central
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in 2020, the archway was bought by hairdresser Piero D'Angelico, a member of Mill Road Traders' Association for ÂŁ1. Subsequently installed in public gardens in Ditchburn Place. It was opened in September 2023 in the presence of local dignitaries.
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of the middle 19th century. Expansion of the railway network drove the building of housing for railway workers and the majority of the houses were built in the ten years after 1885.
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shop window display competition, live music, folk dancing, a local history walk and open days at the road's churches, temple and mosque. The fair was founded by Suzy Oakes.
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was opened, a building subsequently to become the Mill Road Maternity Hospital and finally Ditchburn Place, a sheltered housing scheme.
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Mill Road was originally a quiet country lane leading to the southeast out of the city of Cambridge, named after the
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Crazy diamond: Syd Barrett & the dawn of Pink Floyd — Mike Watkinson and Pete Anderson. Omnibus Press, 2001.
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attended a notorious week-long drunken party there in 1937 after coming to Cambridge to give a reading.
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Conflict in the cosmos: Fred Hoyle's life in science - Simon Mitton. National Academies Press, 2005.
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tradition in its local politics, becoming known locally as 'Red Romsey' or 'Little Russia'.
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A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley - Katherine Frank. Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2005.
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Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Paperback) — M.J. Simpson. Coronet Books 2004.
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Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History - Martin Garrett. Signal Books, 2004.
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The Gateway from India is an intricate temple archway that was carved by hand in
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has always been thought of by local residents as being on the 'Gown' side of the
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divide, with many of the residents having been employed by the University.
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styles, lived at 186 Gwydir Street, just off Mill Road, from 1886 to 1927
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Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe - Julian Palacios Plexus, 2010.
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Near the northwestern end to the south in Mortimer Road off Mill Road is
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Gray, Adrian (1976). "Cambridge's quest for a central station".
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style, is close to the junction of Mill Road and Gwydir Street.
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adjoins the Petersfield part of Mill Road to the north and
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The following live or have lived in the Mill Road area:
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Romsey, Cambridgeshire

Mill Road, Cambridge is located in Cambridge
52°12′00″N 0°08′15″E / 52.1999°N 0.1376°E / 52.1999; 0.1376
Cambridge
England
Parker's Piece
Gonville Place
East Road
Parkside
ring road
A1134
Cambridge Central Mosque
Hughes Hall
Fenner's
cricket ground
University of Cambridge
first-class cricket
Anglia Ruskin University
windmill
station
Gonville and Caius
Corpus Christi
colleges
fellows
Workhouse
Mill Road Cemetery
David Parr House
Arts and Crafts
inclosure acts

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