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closer\n*look.*\n\nSouth — Hills Road\n\n**Founded 1768.** Homerton traces its origins to a dissenting academy that acquired premises in Homerton, east London, in 1768, sustained by a fund of 1695 for educating ministers barred from the old universities; refounded for teacher training in the nineteenth century, it moved to Cambridge in 1894 and became a full self-governing college of the university by Royal Charter in 2010.\n\nVictorian Gothic buildings inherited from the short-lived Cavendish College anchor a leafy site between Hills Road and the railway, joined by the Queen's Wing of 1957 and Feilden Fowles's faceted new dining hall of 2022.\n\nNearby on foot · South **Find Homerton College and the closest colleges.**\n\nExplore around Homerton College\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\n52.1861°N, 0.1364°W [Get directions]()\n\nOn the same walk\n\n### Closest to\n*this one.*\n\n[21 min walk **Hughes Hall** Central-S]()[23 min walk **Downing College** Central-S]()[26 min walk **Peterhouse** Central]()[26 min walk **Pembroke College** Central]()\n\nOn a visit\n\n### Don’t *miss.*\n\n1. 01 The Victorian Gothic Great Hall\n2. 02 Feilden Fowles's dining hall of 2022\n3. 03 The Ibberson Building\n4. 04 The college orchard and gardens\n5. 05 The Queen's Wing of 1957\n\nConnected to\n\n### Notable\n*names.*\n\n- Olivia Colman (actress)\n- Dame Leah Manning (educationalist and MP)\n- Emily Phipps (suffragist and headteacher)\n- William Johnson Fox (radical MP, London era)\n- Edward Stallybrass (missionary and Bible translator)\n- Long association with the university's Faculty of Education\n\nBefore you go\n\n#### Visiting Homerton College\n\nVisiting is geared to prospective students, with regular student-led tours bookable through the college and all visitors asked to report to the Porters' Lodge in the Mary Allan Building; general tourist access is not set out, so entry cannot be assumed and arrangements are given on the college website.\n\nOpening hours, admission and access change often — check the [official site]() before you travel.\n\nFounded\n\n1768\n\nArea\n\nSouth — Hills 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]()\n\nUseful links\n\n- [Official site homerton.cam.ac.uk ↗]()\n- [Reference identity en.wikipedia.org ↗]()\n\n[Report a correction]()\n\nKeep exploring\n\n### Where to\n*next.*\n\n[All colleges]()[Neighbourhoods]()[Things to Do]()" }