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==Present site== [[File:CavendishLab.jpg|thumb|Southern aspect of the laboratory at its current site, viewed from across 'Payne's Pond']] [[File:Cavendish Laboratory III.jpg|thumb|The third iteration of the Cavendish Laboratory under construction in 2020 on its new site at JJ Thomson Avenue]] [[File:cmglee_Cambridge_Maxwell_Centre_Cavendish.jpg|thumb|The 1970s site viewed from the Maxwell Centre]] [[File:cmglee_Cambridge_Maxwell_Centre_stairs.jpg|thumb|Interior of the Maxwell Centre]] Due to overcrowding in the old buildings, it moved to its present site in [[West Cambridge]] in the early 1970s.<ref name=map>{{cite web |url=http://map.cam.ac.uk/#52.206989,0.097120,15 |title=West Cambridge Site Location of the Cavendish Laboratory on the University map |access-date=12 July 2014 |archive-date=25 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225212649/http://map.cam.ac.uk/#52.206989,0.097120,15 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is due to move again to a third site currently under construction in West Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/caviii |title=Cavendish III β Department of Physics |website=www.phy.cam.ac.uk |language=en |access-date=2019-07-29 |archive-date=2019-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712001317/https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/caviii |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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