Linton, Cambridgeshire
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| Linton | |
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| Statistics | |
| Population: | 4,412 (2001) |
| Ordnance Survey | |
| OS grid reference: | TL560469 |
| Administration | |
| District: | South Cambridgeshire |
| Shire county: | Cambridgeshire |
| Region: | East of England |
| Constituent country: | England |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom |
| Other | |
| Ceremonial county: | Cambridgeshire |
| Historic county: | Cambridgeshire |
| Services | |
| Police force: | Cambridgeshire Constabulary |
| Fire and rescue: | {{{Fire}}} |
| Ambulance: | East of England |
| Post office and telephone | |
| Post town: | CAMBRIDGE |
| Postal district: | CB21 (was CB1 POSTCODE CHANGED SEPT06) |
| Dialling code: | 01223 |
| Politics | |
| UK Parliament: | Cambridgeshire South East |
| European Parliament: | East of England |
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Linton is a village in rural Cambridgeshire much expanded since the 1960s and now one of several dormitory villages of Cambridge. The former railway station was on the Cambridge to Colchester line, now closed. The Rivey Hill overlooks the village, with its famous water tower.
There are three schools in Linton, each one covering a different age group. At the Bartlow end of the village is Linton Junior School (teaching children aged from 7 to 11). Linton Infants School is situated in the middle of the village for children aged 5 to 7, while Linton Village College is situated alongside the main Haverhill to Cambridge road and teaches children aged 11 to 16, including those from several surrounding villages.
Spread evenly along the High Street are the three public houses. The Crown has an attached restaurant, while the Dog and Duck has been recently refurbished after flooding. Near the fire station is the Waggon and Horses.
A recent local tradition is the wacky races. This popular event occurs on the second Bank Holiday Weekend in May, and involves participants dressed in comedy costumes, racing down the High Street, stopping in all the pubs for a pint, and then through the fields next to the village and back down the High Street, again drinking in the pubs.
Linton has become famous through fictional character Alan Partridge, who once justified his extended stay at the Linton Travel Tavern by claiming that Linton is equidistant between London and Norwich. Indeed, Linton is near the halfway point of the London to Norwich A11 trunk road, although some 4 miles from the actual road. This suggests that the travel tavern was in fact not in Linton itself, but nearby on the A11. Even in this location, the travel tavern is probably further than Partridge would have wanted from the M11 motorway, to which he once walked to purchase several bottles of windscreen washer fluid from a petrol station.
