Access Guide
Getting To and Around Girton College (Swirles Court)
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Arriving By Car or Bike
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- Eddington is located to the West of the Cambridge city centre. It can be reached from Junction 13 of the M11 via Madingley Road.
It is South of the Girton College main site. From Huntingdon Road, turn onto Eddington Avenue then take the right fork onto Turing Way. Follow the road around Swirles Court and then turn left onto Pheasants Drive. - There is parking located outside the Porters’ Lodge on Pheasant Drive, including 4 Blue Badge Bays (Photograph 1). There is also parking in the opposite corner of the site, accessed off Turing Way. This contains 3 Blue Badge Bays (Photograph 2). If Blue Badge parking is required, please contact the Porters’ Lodge in advance. For more information on the parking available at Swirles Court, please see the detailed access guides.
Madingley Road Park & Ride is approximately 500 metres away and drivers can park for free for up to 18 hours. The postcode for Madingley Road Park & Ride is CB3 0EZ. - Cycling is a popular form of transport in Cambridge. The city is relatively flat and there is an extensive network of cycle routes. There are bike racks located throughout the Swirles Court site.
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- Eddington is located to the West of the Cambridge city centre. It can be reached from Junction 13 of the M11 via Madingley Road.
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By Bus
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- There is a bus stop within 150 metres of the campus.
- The Universal bus links Cambridge Rail Station, the Biomedical Campus and many other University campuses to Eddington, where it stops opposite Sainsbury’s.
From the main bus station, take the citi 5 or 6 buses to Huntingdon Road (alight at Thornton Road) or the X3 or citi 4 buses to Madingley Road (alight at the British Antarctic Survey). You can also take the Madingley Road Park & Ride bus from the city centre (there is a stop outside the Grand Arcade shopping centre) to the Madingley Road Park & Ride site. - Cambridge City Centre Bus Station AccessAble Access Guide (new tab) - click here.
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By Train
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- The nearest Railway Station is Cambridge.
- Cambridge Train Station is approximately 5.5 kilometres from the Postdoc Academy. From here take the Universal Bus to Sainsbury's. The station has direct links to London Kings Cross, London Liverpool Street, Cambridge North, Kings Lynn, Stansted Airport, Brighton, Ipswich and Norwich. The rail companies that operate out of this station are; Cross Country, Great Northern, Thameslink and Greater Anglia.
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Accessing the College Site
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- There is level access to the Porters' Lodge from the car park area off Pheasant Drive. There is also a gate leading into the central courtyard here (Photograph 3). There are also gates with level access to the central courtyard on Ridge Way (Photograph 4) and Turing Way (Photograph 5), plus gates with ramped access on Turing Way and Pheasant Drive (Photograph 6). For more information on access to Swirles Court, please see the detailed access guides.
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Getting Around the College Site
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- The paths around the central courtyard have a brick, block and gravel surface (Photographs 7-9). They are mainly level, but there are some paths with a slight slope (Photograph 10) which overcome steps (Photograph 11).
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