{{Short description|Road in Cambridge, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} thumb|View along Lensfield Road.
'''Lensfield Road''' is a road (part of the A603) in southeast central Cambridge, England.<ref>[http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/public/pdfs/Lensfield%20Road.pdf Lensfield Road] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222012027/http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/public/pdfs/Lensfield%20Road.pdf |date=22 February 2012 }}, Cambridge City Council.</ref><ref>[http://www.cambridgeonline.co.uk/streets/Lensfield_Road/ Lensfield Road], [http://www.cambridgeonline.co.uk/ Cambridge Online].</ref> It runs between the junction of Trumpington Street and Trumpington Road to the west and the junction of Regent Street and Hills Road to the west. It continues as Gonville Place to the northeast past Parker's Piece, a large grassy area with footpaths.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}
On the south side of the road are the Scott Polar Research Institute, St Alban's Primary School and the University of Cambridge's Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.<ref>[http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/ Department of Chemistry], University of Cambridge.</ref> On the corner with Hills Road is Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}
To the north between Tennis Court Road and Regent Street is one of the larger University of Cambridge colleges, Downing College, which owns many properties on the road. This area used to be known as Pembroke Leys, a boggy area south of medieval Cambridge. Between Trumpington Street and Tennis Court Road to the north is the Old Addenbrooke's Site, where Addenbrooke's Hospital was located before it moved further out of Cambridge to the southeast at the end of Hills Road (on the edge of the city).{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}
== Hobson's Conduit == {{main|Hobson's Conduit}} The St Andrew's Street branch of Hobson's Conduit was added in 1631, providing a water supply for the eastern part of the city. It flowed from the conduit east along Lensfield Road, then north along Regent Terrace, and on to St Andrew's Street in the centre of the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iankitching.me.uk/history/cam/hobsons-conduit.html|title=Hobson's Conduit|author=Robert MacMillan}}</ref>
A major fire in 1849 meant that a new fountain for the Market Place branch of Hobson's Conduit was erected in 1855. The previous structure was moved to the corner of Lensfield Road and Trumpington Road in 1856 as a monument to Thomas Hobson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.plcane.clara.net/cambridge/hobsons.htm|title=Hobson's Conduit and the Botanical Gardens|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711215451/http://www.plcane.clara.net/cambridge/hobsons.htm|archivedate=11 July 2006}}</ref>
== Gallery == <gallery> File:Random bikes - Lensfield Road - geograph.org.uk - 1615900.jpg|Bicycles outside the University of Cambridge's Department of Chemistry on Lensfield Road. File:ISH WC Cambridge15.jpg|A view of Parker's Piece looking towards Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church at the junction of Hills Road and Lensfield Road. File :Hobson'sconduit2.JPG|Monument to Thomas Hobson, at the point where the conduit crosses Lensfield Road, at its eastern end. File :Hobson'sconduit4.JPG|Hobson's Conduit at the end of Brookside, off Lensfield Road. </gallery>
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