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  "editorialMarkdown": "North · Founded 1869\n\n## Girton College\n\nThe first residential women's college in Britain, deliberately founded at a distance from Cambridge, and still the college with the most expansive grounds in the university.\n\n[Official site](<https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/>)\n\nFounded  1869\n\nWhere  North\n\nAccess  Check before visiting\n\nType  College\n\nThe college\n\n### A closer\n*look.*\n\nNorth — Huntingdon Road\n\n**Founded 1869.** Founded in 1869 at Hitchin by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as Britain's first residential college offering university-level education to women, it moved to Girton village in 1873 and was granted full Cambridge college status only in 1948, admitting men from the late 1970s.\n\nAlfred Waterhouse's red-brick Victorian ranges, tower and long corridors set the character of the college, which spreads across some fifty acres of gardens, orchard and grounds two and a half miles north-west of the city centre.\n\nNearby on foot · North **Find Girton College and the closest colleges.**\n\nExplore around Girton College\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\n52.2286°N, 0.0839°W [Get directions](<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=52.2286,0.08394>)\n\nOn the same walk\n\n### Closest to\n*this one.*\n\n[27 min walk **Fitzwilliam College** North](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/fitzwilliam>)[28 min walk **Churchill College** West](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/churchill>)[29 min walk **Murray Edwards College** North](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/murray-edwards>)[30 min walk **St Edmund's College** North](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/st-edmunds>)\n\nOn a visit\n\n### Don’t *miss.*\n\n1. 01  Alfred Waterhouse's red-brick tower and ranges\n2. 02  The Lawrence Room museum, open Thursday afternoons\n3. 03  The Old Orchard and fifty acres of gardens and grounds\n4. 04  The long Victorian corridors\n5. 05  The chapel\n\nConnected to\n\n### Notable\n*names.*\n\n- Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon (founders)\n- Queen Margrethe II of Denmark\n- Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond (President of the UK Supreme Court)\n- Hertha Ayrton (engineer and physicist)\n- Arianna Huffington (publisher)\n- Sandi Toksvig (broadcaster)\n\nBefore you go\n\n#### Visiting Girton College\n\nVisitors are welcome to look around the grounds without an appointment between 9am and 5pm daily, asking at the Porters' Lodge for a self-tour pamphlet; the college is closed to visitors in December and during the May and June exam period, and the Lawrence Room museum opens on Thursday afternoons from 2pm to 4pm.\n\nOpening hours, admission and access change often — check the [official site](<https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/>) before you travel.\n\nFounded\n\n1869\n\nArea\n\nNorth — Huntingdon Road\n\nType\n\nCollege\n\nBefore you visit\n\n### Check hours, tickets and access.\n\nCheck opening hours, admission prices and access with the venue before setting off.\n\nUpdated\n\nDate unavailable\n\nBy\n\n[Above Guide Editorial Team](<https://above.guide/cambridge/about#editorial-team>)\n\nUseful links\n\n- [Official site girton.cam.ac.uk ↗](<https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/>)\n- [Reference identity en.wikipedia.org ↗](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girton_College,_Cambridge>)\n\n[Report a correction](<https://above.guide/cambridge/corrections>)\n\nKeep exploring\n\n### Where to\n*next.*\n\n[All colleges](<https://above.guide/cambridge/explore>)[Neighbourhoods](<https://above.guide/cambridge/neighbourhoods>)[Things to Do](<https://above.guide/cambridge/things-to-do>)"
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