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The Trust may be a household name today, but it is also a hospital with a history. In 1719 Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow and former bursar of St Catharine’s College, left £4,500 in his will for a hospital to be built in Cambridge . One of the first provincial voluntary hospitals in Britain, Addenbrooke’s first opened its doors in 1766 in Trumpington Street in Cambridge with just 20 beds and 11 patients.
During the 18th and 19th centuries the hospital grew rapidly as medical science developed. By the 1950s the hospital was having difficulty accommodating the expansion generated by the introduction of the National Health Service, and in the early 1960s the hospital began a staged move to its present 66-acre campus in Hills Road on the southern outskirts of Cambridge .
The first stage of the hospital development on the Hills Road campus was opened by the Queen in 1962, and from that day onwards the hospital has continued to grow .
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