Cherry Hinton

Cherry Hinton is a village about three miles south-east of the city centre. It was a separate parish until 1934, when it merged with Cambridge. The Domesday Book records "Hintone" held by Count Alan, with four mills. The ward had 9,343 residents at the 2021 census.

What's here

St Andrew's Church has records that go back to 1201, with some tower fabric thought to be 900 years old or more, a thirteenth-century chancel and a fifteenth-century carved rood screen. Cherry Hinton Hall and its grounds help separate the village from the city proper, and the flooded chalk pits and the old airfield do the same. South of the village, Cherry Hinton Pit is a nature reserve on the site of former chalk quarrying, with the Gog Magog Hills rising beyond.

The War Ditches, an Iron Age hillfort, have largely been quarried away.

Getting around

Cherry Hinton has a compact High Street with shops and small businesses. The village has no railway station: the railway passes through but the nearest stops are in Cambridge itself, about three miles west. By bike the centre is about twenty minutes away at a moderate pace, and there are three car-free paths for part of the journey. For the neighbouring district nearer the centre, see Romsey.