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Getting Here

By Bus - By Car - By Train

The Cavendish Laboratory is off Madingley Road, on JJ Thomson Avenue to the west of the city. Please visit reception when you arrive and contact the person you are visiting.

Larger scale map of the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics on theWest Cambridge Site

By Bus

There is a national bus station at Drummer Street in Cambridge. From there you can get a taxi to The Cavendish.

By Local Bus

Latest map of a new local bus route that will has a stop directly outside the Cavendish Laboratory. The closest stop in town is Silver Street and the Cavendish is J J Thomson Ave, and here is the appropriate timetable.

By Car

Coming from the South, you will probably come up the M11. Leave at junction 13, turn right along the A1303. The Cavendish is on the right after a mile or so on JJ Thomson Avenue.

Coming from the West, you will probably come on the A428 from Bedford. Take the A1303 as you approach Cambridge, and you will be on the Madingley Road, with the Cavendish on the right off JJ Thomson Avenue before you enter the city.

Coming from the North, you should come on the A14 (formerly A604). Take the exit for Cambridge, and you enter along the Huntingdon Road. Turn right along Storey's Way, then right when you reach Madingley Road, to find the Cavendish on the left on JJ Thomson Avenue.

See the road map for more details.

By Train

The timetable for Cambridge-London trains can be found here. Trains run from both King's Cross and Liverpool Street stations in London. Cambridge station is about 3 miles from The Cavendish - it is best to take a taxi.
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