This pivot cone was discovered during the excavation works at CB1 and reinstated here as a piece of Industrial heritage. It was the central balancing and turning mechanism for the historic railway turntable at Cambridge Station, as shown in the . . . — — Map (db m306337) HM
This disk
marks the datum point
from which in 1725 William Warren,
Fellow of Trinity Hall, began to measure
the one mile points along the roads from
Cambridge at which were then set up
the first true milestones in Britain
since Roman . . . — — Map (db m68118) HM
The History of the Cemetery
By the early nineteenth century the churchyards of Cambridge were full and could not be extended in the built-up city centre. The site for Mill Road Cemetery was purchased by public subscription to provide new . . . — — Map (db m246634) HM
Stephen Perse MD
1548 - 1615
Fellow of Gonville & Caius, physician, financier and philanthropist
Founded by his will upon this site the Free Grammar School that later became the Perse Schools — — Map (db m252760) HM
