The watercourse was named after Thomas Hobson, a local businessman who paid ... Even the railings are listed It feeds the lake in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and runs between ...

Thomas Hobson is most known for financing Hobson's Conduit, a water course which provided clean water to the city for the first time.

sits on a site associated with the charity founded by Thomas Hobson, the public-spirited character from seventeenth century Cambridge. Since the police station moved in the 1960s, the building has ...

Cambridge City Council have confirmed all ... is a Victorian redevelopment of a site owned by Elizabethan philanthropist Thomas Hobson, who was famous for the phrase ‘Hobson’s Choice’.

By John V. Orth Four hundred years ago, Thomas Hobson ran a large livery stable in Cambridge, England. In order to ensure the equal use of each of his horses, he gave his customers their choice of ...

The conduit is named after Thomas Hobson - of Hobson's Choice fame - who ran livery stables in 1600s Cambridge An ancient watercourse, known as Hobson's Conduit, has been providing a freshwater ...