Sidgwick Avenue is located in western Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It links Grange Road

Grange Road, Cambridge

Grange Road is a long straight road in western Cambridge, England. It stretches north–south, meeting Madingley Road at a T-junction to the north and Barton Road to the south....

 to the west with Queen's Road

Queen's Road, Cambridge

Queen's Road is a major road to the west of central Cambridge, England. It links with Madingley Road and Northampton Street to the north with Sidgwick Avenue, Newnham Road and Silver Street to the south....

 to the east. The road continues northeast into central Cambridge as Silver Street

Silver Street, Cambridge

Silver Street is located in the southwest of central Cambridge, England. It links Queen's Road to the west with Trumpington Street to the east. The road continues west out of central Cambridge as Sidgwick Avenue....

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At the western end to the north is Selwyn College

Selwyn College, Cambridge

Selwyn College is a constituent college in the University of Cambridge in England, United Kingdom.The college was founded by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of the Rt Reverend George Selwyn , who rowed on the Cambridge crew in the first Varsity Boat Race in 1829, and went on to become the...

 and to the south is Newnham College

Newnham College, Cambridge

Newnham College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1871 by Henry Sidgwick, and was the second Cambridge college to admit women after Girton College...

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Ridley Hall

Ridley Hall, Cambridge

Ridley Hall is a theological college located in Sidgwick Avenue in Cambridge in the United Kingdom, which trains intending ministers for the Church of England and other churches. It was founded in 1881 and named in memory of Nicholas Ridley, a leading protestant theologian of the sixteenth century...

 is a theological college on the south side of Sidgwick Avenue.
To the north is the Sidgwick Site

Sidgwick Site

The Sidgwick Site is one of the largest sites within the University of Cambridge, England.- Overview and history :The Sidgwick Site is located on the western edge of Cambridge city centre, north of Sidgwick Avenue and south of West Road, and is home to several of the university's arts and...

 of the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

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Here can be found Lady Mitchell Hall

Lady Mitchell Hall

Lady Mitchell Hall is a large lecture theatre owned by the University of Cambridge. It is located on the University's Sidgwick Site, north of Sidgwick Avenue in Cambridge, England....

 and the Museum of Classical Archaeology

Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge

The Museum of Classical Archaeology is a museum run by the Faculty of Classics of the University of Cambridge, England. It is located on the Sidgwick Site of the University, north of Sidgwick Avenue....

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The Marshall Library of Economics moved to Sidgwick Avenue in the 1960s.

History

The early progress of women at Cambridge University owes much to Henry Sidgwick

Henry Sidgwick

Henry Sidgwick was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist. He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research, a member of the Metaphysical Society, and promoted the higher education of women...

, a philosophy fellow of Trinity College

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

. In 1871, with Anne Clough

Anne Clough

Anne Jemima Clough was an early English suffragist and a promoter of higher education for women.Clough was born at Liverpool, the daughter of a cotton merchant. She was the sister of Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet and assistant to Florence Nightingale. When two years old she was taken with the rest...

, the first Principal of Newnham College, and Eleanor Balfour

Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick

Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, née Balfour was an activist for the higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College and a leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research.-Biography:...

(Sidgwick's future wife), Sidgwick oversaw the purchase of a house for five female students who wished to attend lectures but did not live near enough to the University to do so. In 1875 the first building was built on Sidgwick Avenue site of Newnham College, now called Old Hall. Sidgwick Avenue is named after Henry and Eleanor Sidgwick.