Cherry Hinton

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Cherry Hinton
Cherry Hinton (Cambridgeshire)
Cherry Hinton

Cherry Hinton shown within Cambridgeshire
Population 8,303 (2001)
OS grid reference TL487563
District Cambridge
Shire county Cambridgeshire
Region East
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CAMBRIDGE
Postcode district CB19
Dialling code 01223
Police Cambridgeshire
Fire Cambridgeshire
Ambulance East of England
European Parliament East of England
UK Parliament Cambridge
List of places: UK • England • Cambridgeshire

Coordinates: 52°11′06″N 0°10′34″E / 52.184906, 0.176084

Cherry Hinton is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. It is within the City of Cambridge local government district, four miles south east of Cambridge City Centre.

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[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] Demography

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] Economy

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 population 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 15 minutes to cycle into the centre of Cambridge at a moderate pace, or 10 minutes to the train station. Daws Lane and The Snakey Path can be used to avoid traffic for part of these journeys.

Stagecoach Buses provide services through the village; Citi 1 bus from Fulbourn to Arbury and the Citi 3 bus from Bridewell Road to Fison Road combine for a frequency of a bus into the centre every 5 minutes, with an average journey time of approximately 20 minutes. Both of these services stop at the train station and the Citi 1 additionally serves Addenbrooke's Hospital.

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] Public services

There are two health centres in the village, one of which (the Cherry Hinton Medical Surgery) 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, with services currently operated by SLM Leisure. The Spinney Primary School, close to the village centre, has recently had a very successful Ofsted inspection. Other primary level schools are the Cherry Hinton Infants' School, which feeds into the Cherry Hinton Community Junior School, and Colville Primary School. Secondary schooling for most children is at Netherhall School, or alternatively at St Bede's Inter-Church Comprehensive School.

In the High Street there are a number of shops including a Tesco Express supermarket, a newsagents, a Sue Ryder charity shop, two hairdressers, a bakery, two chemists, a cycle shop, a craft shop, two turf accountants and a post office. There is also a Tesco superstore towards Fulbourn. Meals are available at the Sitar Indian restaurant, the Golden Gate Chinese Takeaway and the Cherry House Chinese Takeaway & Chip Shop, as well as from the bakery which provides a variety of filled rolls and hot snack products.

The village has a well appointed recreation ground situated on the high street. Here children's play equipment and football fields for local fixtures are provided. It also has a park and children's play area, including paddling pools and tennis courts, in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, which hosts an annual folk festival.

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

[edit] Cultural references

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.

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