Cherry Hinton

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Cherry Hinton
OS Grid Reference:	TL487563
Lat/Lon:	52°11′N 0°11′ECoordinates: 52°11′N 0°11′E
Population:	8303 (2001 Census)
Dwellings:	3600 (2001 Census)
Formal status:	Town
Administration
County:	Cambridgeshire
Region:	East Anglia
Nation:	England
Post Office and Telephone
Post town:	Cambridge
Postcode:	CB1 9
Dialling Code:	01223

Cherry Hinton is a town in Cambridgeshire, England.

1 Geography
2 Population
3 Employment
4 Transport
5 Local services
6 References in literature
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Geography

Cherry Hinton lies about four miles South-East of the centre of Cambridge, and falls within the Cambridge City boundary but is geographically separated from it by the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, the airfield and the flooded gravel pits. The village itself is fairly compact. North of the village is Cambridge airport; to the East is Fulbourn; to the South is a nature reserve formed from old chalk pits and then the Gog Magog Hills which rise to 75 metres. Outside the residential area the land is open farmland, with relatively few trees.

[edit] Population

Substantial housing estate developments, both local authority and private have taken place in the village over the last 50 years. Housing is typically suburban with 2,200 people per square kilometre; 40% of housing being semi-detached and 60% being owner-occupied.

In 2001 the population of the village was made up of 1,600 people under 16, 4,950 aged 16 to 59, and 1,750 over 60.

[edit] Employment

In common with changes in the post-war years most of the residents in employment work outside the village, in Cambridge and elsewhere. There are small industrial units scattered throughout the area, together with a thriving high-street with a selection of shops and small businesses. Marshall Aerospace, the aircraft maintenance company and owners of Cambridge airport, to the North, has been a major employer in recent decades.

In 2001 the economically active population was estimated at 4,186 (70% of the popoulation aged 16 to 74). Unemployment was given as 2.4%.

[edit] Transport

There are good road links to Cambridge and the surrounding area; nearly 60% of the population travel to work by motorised vehicle and 25% travel to work by foot or bicycle; it takes 25 minutes to cycle into the centre of Cambridge along the Burnside cycle track.

The main Cherry Hinton high street is famous for its traffic calming system; this consists of a series of chicanes, traffic islands and mini roundabouts that sometimes reduces vehicular traffic to a crawl.

[edit] Local services

There are two health centres in the village, one of which has a practice shared with Brookfields Health Centre on Seymour Street, Cambridge.

There is a village hall and leisure centre adjacent to the village library. The Spinney Primary School, close to the village centre, has recently had a very successful Ofsted inspection. Secondary schooling for most children is at Netherhall School.

In the High Street there are a number of shops including a Tesco Express supermarket, an optician, newsagents, a charity shop, hairdressers, a restaurant, a chip shop, a baker's shop, two chemists, a dentist, a flower shop and a post office. There is also a Tesco superstore towards Fulbourn. The village has a well appointed recreation ground. It also has a park and children's play area in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, which hosts an annual folk festival.

Cherry Hinton falls within the jurisdiction of Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire County Council for Local Government Services.

[edit] References in literature

Fulbourn Hospital, to the East of Cherry Hinton was built as an asylum in the mid-19th century between the village and Fulbourn. Until recently the main Victorian building was used as a psychiatric hospital. It is this hospital which gave rise to the lines "Strong men have run for miles and miles, When one from Cherry Hinton smiles;" in the poem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke.