Cambridge Street-Names

Download or read book Cambridge Street-Names written by Ronald Gray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of a Christian community, Cromwell and Newton, an Anglo-Saxon queen and the discoverer of Uranus--all people who lived in or often visited Cambridge.