St. Cedd's College, Cambridge

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St. Cedd's College is a fictional college of Cambridge University created by Douglas Adams. It appears in the Doctor Who serial Shada, and in the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

It is the home of Professor Chronotis, a retired time traveller who appears in Adams' fiction, and - in the fictional universe - was also the college of Isaac Newton (who actually attended Trinity) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (who actually attended Jesus). It was named, of course, after Saint Cedd, brother of Saint Chad, whom Gently describes as "one of the duller Northumbrian saints."

It is based somewhat on Adams's own college, St. John's. For Shada, scenes at St. Cedd's were filmed on location at Emmanuel College.

Saint Cedd was the person who brought Christianity to Essex, and Adams may have been familiar with this name from his time at school in Brentwood, where there is a St. Cedd's church.