2531 Cambridge, provisional designation 1980 LD, is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 11 June 1980, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station in Arizona, United States. The asteroid was named for the "centers of learning in England and in Massachusetts".^[2]

Cambridge is a member of the Eos family (606),^[3][4] the largest asteroid family in the outer main belt consisting of nearly 10,000 known asteroids.^[11]: 23 It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.8–3.2 AU once every 5 years and 3 months (1,906 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.06 and an inclination of 11° with respect to the ecliptic.^[1]

It was first identified as A916 FE Simeiz Observatory in 1916. The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at Lowell Observatory in 1931, or 49 years prior to its official discovery observation at Anderson Mesa.^[2]

Cambridge is an assumed stony S-type asteroid,^[3] in line with the overall spectral type for members of the Eos family.^[11]: 23

This minor planet was named after the University of Cambridge in England and the universities in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States), where the Minor Planet Center (MPC) is located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.^[2] The approved naming citation was published by the MPC on 8 April 1982 (M.P.C. 6834).^[12]