A cartoon drawing showing a horse-drawn tram with a driver, a conductor, and a passenger, captioned A Bit of Old Cambridge.

Cambridge Tram Cartoon

Hyde Park Corner / Dawe’s Cross

History of Hyde Park Corner

A black and white ink map shows medieval Cambridge streets, buildings, and named land plots divided by ditches and tracks.

Map of Cambridge ‘Outside Barnwell gate’ 14th cent.

It was at this point, the junction of the medieval King’s Lane (Gonville Place), Deepway (Lensfield Road) and Hadstock Way (Hills Road) that Dawe’s Cross was situated.

A black and white ink drawing from a field book showing a cross on a stepped plinth topped by a small bird and Latin text.

Dawe’s Cross

Dawe’s Cross was often mentioned in ancient deeds and representations of it exist in old Field Books from Peterhouse and St Andrew the Great.

Line drawing of a cross standing on a three-tiered stepped base with a checkered pattern of solid and hatched squares.

Dawe’s Cross

Hyde Park Corner was the nick name for the junction of Hills Road and Regent Street outside the Catholic Church. It was the intersection of the two horse drawn tram lines that operated from 1880 to 1914 run by Cambridge Street Tramways.

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Hills Road

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