At the eastern end to the north fronting onto Trumpington Street is St Catharine's College.

[4] This is bounded by Silver Street to the north, Trumpington Street to the east, Little St Mary' Lane to the south, and Granta Place / Laundress Lane on the Cam to the west.

She was the daughter of Sir George Darwin FRS, astronomer and mathematician, and his wife Maud du Puy.

During her childhood, she lived in Newnham Grange on Silver Street in a house that now forms part of Darwin College.

In 1946 she moved to The Old Granary on Silver Street, also now part of Darwin College, where she published her childhood memoir Period Piece in 1952.