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Cambridge Blackfriars

Cambridge Blackfriars is a priory in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Top of the 59 other places within 15 km is Fitzwilliam Museum, 1.7 km off. Articles on it exist in 3 languages.

Photo: Cambridge Blackfriars, Vysotsky (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where

In Cambridge

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 28%

#2,392 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Abbey or priory in Cambridge

Inside Cambridge

Cambridge Blackfriars is inside Cambridge’s built-up area, with 27 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Month by month in Cambridge

In Cambridge, May to September bring the warmest days: highs of 18–23°C.

Jan8° / 2°48 mm

Feb9° / 2°36 mm

Mar11° / 3°33 mm

Apr14° / 5°36 mm

May18° / 7°45 mm

Jun21° / 10°51 mm

Jul23° / 13°49 mm

Aug23° / 12°57 mm

Sep20° / 10°48 mm

Oct15° / 8°57 mm

Nov11° / 4°53 mm

Dec8° / 2°50 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Cambridge, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Cambridge. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Cambridge’s full climate →

About

Cambridge Blackfriars

Priory in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.

In Cambridge, inside the town’s built-up area.

Type: Abbey or priory
Wikipedias: Covered in 3 languages
Town: in Cambridge
Official site: blackfriarscambridge.org.uk

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Map of Cambridge Blackfriars and nearby

On this map, Cambridge Blackfriars is orange and its neighbours are numbered.

Towns near it

Nearby towns

Of these 8 towns, the largest is Cambridge (152,742 people). They run in order of distance, starting where it stands.

1 · It’s in town

Cambridge

152,742 people · 33 places to visit

2 · 1.5 km northwest of it

Girton

4,384 people · 28 places to visit

3 · 2.4 km north of it

Histon and Impington

7,781 people · 32 places to visit

4 · 2.6 km west of it

Coton

952 people · 25 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Cambridge Blackfriars is	People	Places to visit
Cambridge	It’s in town	152,742	33
Girton	1.5 km northwest of it	4,384	28
Histon and Impington	2.4 km north of it	7,781	32
Coton	2.6 km west of it	952	25
Grantchester	3.4 km south of it	536	26
Fen Ditton	4 km east of it	509	31
Milton	4.1 km northeast of it	4,150	30
Barton	4.6 km southwest of it	504	22

Make a day of it

While you are near Cambridge Blackfriars

Within 15 km are 59 places, among them 5 museums, a castle and an art gallery.

1MuseumMuseumFitzwilliam Museum1.7 km away · 364K visitors a year 2

MuseumMuseum of Zoology1.4 km away · 139K visitors a year (2023)3

CastleCambridge Castle400 m away 4

Art galleryKettle's Yard Gallery500 m away 5

GardenCambridge University Botanic Garden2.6 km away 6

MuseumWhipple Museum of the History Of Science1.4 km away 7

MuseumIWM Duxford13 km away · 401K visitors a year (2019)8

MuseumMuseum of Archaeology and Anthropology1.5 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Cambridge Blackfriars: common questions

Where is Cambridge Blackfriars?

Cambridge Blackfriars is in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Cambridge Blackfriars?

Priory in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.

When is the best time to visit Cambridge Blackfriars?

May to September are the warmest months in Cambridge, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Cambridge Blackfriars?

Within 15 km: Fitzwilliam Museum (1.7 km), Museum of Zoology (1.4 km), Cambridge Castle (400 m) and Kettle's Yard Gallery (500 m).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (8)

Cambridge Blackfriars: Vysotsky, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Museum of Zoology: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cambridge Castle: Samuel Buck / Nathaniel Buck, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Kettle's Yard Gallery: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cambridge University Botanic Garden: temporalata, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Whipple Museum of the History Of Science: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
IWM Duxford: IxK85, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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