King Street is a street in central Cambridge

Cambridge

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, England

England

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. It connects between Sussex Street

Sussex Street, Cambridge

Sussex Street is a pedestranised shopping street in central Cambridge, England. It runs between Sidney Street to the southwest and the junction of King Street and Hobson Street to the northeast....

 heading west and Hobson Street heading south at the western end and a large roundabout

Roundabout

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 to the east. It runs parallel to and south of Jesus Lane

Jesus Lane

Jesus Lane is a historical street in central Cambridge, England. The street links with the junction of Bridge Street and Sidney Street to the west. To the east is a roundabout. To the south is King Street, running parallel with Jesus Lane and linking at the roundabout. The road continues east as...

. The roads link together at a roundabout

Roundabout

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 at the eastern end. To the east is Maid's Causeway and then Newmarket Road

Newmarket Road, Cambridge

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 leading out of Cambridge. To the north is Victoria Avenue between Jesus Green

Jesus Green

Jesus Green is a park in the north of central Cambridge, England. It is located north of Jesus College, hence the name. Jesus Ditch runs through Jesus Green. On the northern edge of Jesus Green is the River Cam, with Chesterton Road on the opposite side. To the east is Victoria Avenue and beyond...

 and Midsummer Common

Midsummer Common

Midsummer Common is an area of common land in central Cambridge, UK. The Cambridge Midsummer Fair held on the common is one of the oldest fairs in the UK and at one point was among England's largest...

. To the south is Short Road, Cambridge, quickly leading into Emmanuel Road past Christ's Pieces

Christ's Pieces

Christ's Pieces is Victorian park in the east of central Cambridge, England, with flower beds and ornamental trees. The area acts as an important publicly accessible open grassed area for the city centre. It is located to the east of Christ's College and to the north of Emmanuel College...

.

Sidney Sussex College

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Sidney Sussex College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.The college was founded in 1596 and named after its foundress, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex. It was from its inception an avowedly Puritan foundation: some good and godlie moniment for the mainteynance...

 backs onto the street to the northwest. Christ's College

Christ's College, Cambridge

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 is to the south, with some of its more building buildings on the street.

Public houses

There are currently four pubs

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 on King Street:

• The King Street Run, (86 King Street. Previously named Horse and Groom) named after an organized pub crawl
  Pub crawl
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• The Champion of the Thames
• St Radegund, named after the sixth century saint, Radegund
  Radegund
  Radegund was a 6th century Frankish princess, who founded the monastery of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. Canonized in the 9th century, she is the patron saint of several English churches and of Jesus College, Cambridge.-Life history:Radegund was born about 520 to Bertachar, one of the three kings...
  
  
• The Jolly Scholar (1 King Street. Built in 1970s on the site of The Kings Arms)

There are also a number of restaurants on the street.

Former public houses

The street was previously noted for the number of pubs and was at one stage synonymous with the King Street Run pub crawl. Former pubs on the street included (italicised street numbers indicate the numbering scheme prior to 1897):

• The Boot (39/97 King Street)
• Cambridge Ale Stores/Cambridge Arms (4/6 King Street. Now d'Arry's restaurant. Briefly called The Brewery, and Rattle and Hum in early 2000s)
• Carpenters Arms (45/93&94 King Street. Closed c1900)
• Earl Grey (60/34 King Street)
• Garrick's Head (52 King Street. Briefly called The Shakespeare in the 1870s. Closed prior to 1900)
• Glaziers Arms (105 King Street. Closed late 19th century)
• The Harp (84 King Street. Closed 1870s)
• Millers Arms (11 King Street. Closed late 19th century)
• Royal Arms (104&105/21 King Street)
• Sebastopol (76 King Street. Closed late 19th century)
• White Hart (22 King Street. Closed 1870s)
• Yorkshire Grey (64 King Street. Closed late 19th century)