Cherry Hinton Hall

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Cherry Hinton Hall is a small house and park in Cherry Hinton, to the south of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The house and grounds are owned and managed by Cambridge City Council.

The Hall is most well known for hosting the annual Cambridge Folk Festival, an ever-growing (in size and popularity) event that regularly draws thousands to the park. During the summer months, aside from hosting the Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall is alive with predominantly young families enjoying the wide open grass spaces and the large duck pond which for many is the defining feature of the park along with the vast array of other wildlife living there. Many community activities also take place in the park, such as an archaeological and buildings survey to be carried out by children at the local St. Bede's Inter-Church Comprehensive School, scheduled to be completed in May 2007.

In 2007 Cherry Hinton Hall became home to Cambridge International Preparatory School (CIPS). The school is owned by the Sturdy family who also own Sancton Wood School in Cambridge and Holme Court School for dyslexics in Biggleswade.