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List of fictional Cambridge colleges

A list of some of the fictional colleges of the University of Cambridge.

Fisher College - The Cambridge Murders by Dilwyn Rees, situated between real-life St John's College and Trinity College.
Lancaster College - various books by Simon Raven. Bears more than a passing resemblance to King's College.
Porterhouse College - Porterhouse Blue, Tom Sharpe. The name suggests Peterhouse, though it is also a pun on college porters and porterhouse steaks.
St. Bernard's College - Darkness at Pemberley, T. H. White. Loosely disguised version of Queens' College.
St. Botolph's College - Example college in Cambridge University Computing Service documentation.
St. Cedd's College - Various works, Douglas Adams. Based on St. John's College, the alma mater of Douglas Adams.
St. Matthew's College - Various works by Stephen Fry.
St. Stephen's College - For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George, located between Trinity College and Trinity Hall and modelled on the latter.
Weirdsister College - Magical college in Weirdsister College-The Further Adventures of The Worst Witch
Wetmarsh College - subject of an operetta by Mark Wainwright and Roland Anderson entitled Wetmarsh College, or, Dr Middlebottom, first staged in 2005.
an unnamed college in C. P. Snow's novel The Masters and other novels in the Strangers and Brothers series