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  "editorialMarkdown": "West · Founded 1965\n\n## Wolfson College\n\nIt is one of Cambridge's youngest and most international colleges, for mature and graduate students, and its ten acres of gardens are among the most generously open college grounds in the city.\n\n[Official site](<https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/>)\n\nFounded  1965\n\nWhere  West\n\nAccess  Check before visiting\n\nType  College\n\nThe college\n\n### A closer\n*look.*\n\nWest — Barton Road\n\n**Founded 1965.** Founded by the University in 1965 as University College, a graduate society occupying a single Edwardian house on Barton Road, it was renamed Wolfson College on 1 January 1973 in recognition of a major benefaction from the Wolfson Foundation.\n\nThe College grows outward from Bredon House, an Edwardian home on Barton Road, through plain brick courts of the 1970s whose central buildings were opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. Later additions such as the Lee Library and the Chancellor's Centre sit within ten acres of mature gardens laid out as a sequence of garden 'rooms'.\n\nNearby on foot · West **Find Wolfson College and the closest colleges.**\n\nExplore around Wolfson College\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\n52.1983°N, 0.1009°W [Get directions](<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=52.19835,0.10091>)\n\nOn the same walk\n\n### Closest to\n*this one.*\n\n[5 min walk **Selwyn College** West](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/selwyn>)[6 min walk **Newnham College** West](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/newnham>)[8 min walk **Clare Hall** West](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/clare-hall>)[9 min walk **Ridley Hall** West](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/ridley-hall>)\n\nOn a visit\n\n### Don’t *miss.*\n\n1. 01  Ten-acre gardens and their garden 'rooms'\n2. 02  Self-guided Tree Trail from the Porters' Lodge\n3. 03  Bredon House, the Edwardian core of the College\n4. 04  Mulberry tree beside the Porters' Lodge\n5. 05  Judas tree in Front Court\n6. 06  Redwoods outside Fuchs House\n\nConnected to\n\n### Notable\n*names.*\n\n- John Morrison, classicist and founding President\n- The Wolfson Foundation, refounding benefactor of 1973\n- David Crystal, linguist and honorary fellow\n- Lee Seng Tee, benefactor of the Lee Library\n- The Wolfson Press Fellowship for working journalists\n\nBefore you go\n\n#### Visiting Wolfson College\n\nVisitors are welcome to explore the grounds and gardens during daytime opening hours, calling at the Porters' Lodge for a College map. The gardens also open publicly through the National Garden Scheme in summer and the Open Cambridge weekend in September.\n\nOpening hours, admission and access change often — check the [official site](<https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/>) before you travel.\n\nFounded\n\n1965\n\nArea\n\nWest — Barton 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 wolfson.cam.ac.uk ↗](<https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/>)\n- [Reference identity en.wikipedia.org ↗](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfson_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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