2012

TL4359 : A Trinity Hall 'milestone'

taken 13 years ago, near to Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England

A Trinity Hall 'milestone'
A Trinity Hall 'milestone'
Historically, Trinity Hall College set up a number of milestones near Cambridge. In 2006, to mark the opening of some new buildings on their Wychfield site, they added a new one on Storey's Way. With a pleasing academic twist, this one is metric! The main part of the College in central Cambridge is 2006 metres to the south-east, but the main entrance to Wychfield is just 50 metres away WNW.

I can't resist adding a little anecdote. When my own College (Sidney Sussex) reached its 400th anniversary in 1996, a close friend and I donated a piece to recognise the occasion. Rather against his better judgment (he is a linguist), I insisted that the date was shown as MIIIIM. Not, of course, correct, but rather more elegant than MDCCCCLXXXXIX, or whatever the correct Roman form is for 1996. (Actually, I suspect that they rarely used such large numbers.)

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Geographical Context: Historic sites and artefacts Educational sites other tags: Trinity Hall College Cambridge Milestone Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Storey's Way [58] · Cambridge Colleges [57] · Trinity Hall's Wychfield [9] · New Hall [7] · Entrance to Wychfield [3] ·
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TL4359, 344 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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David Purchase   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 22 September, 2012   (more nearby)
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Monday, 25 February, 2013
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4380 5944 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:12.8649N 0:6.2024E
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4380 5944
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