Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations

by Ronald Gray and Derek Stubbings

Book Overview

This book draws on the great wealth of associations of street names in Cambridge. It is not a dictionary, but it provides a series of entries on such topics as the Reformation, George IV and his wife, twentieth-century British scientists, businessmen, Elizabethan times, medieval Cambridge, mayors, millers, and builders. It includes hermits and coal merchants, field marshals and laundresses, martyrs and bombers, unscrupulous politicians and the founder...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521789567
• ISBN13: 9780521789561
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"