Cherry Hinton

The rectangular parish of Cherry Hinton occupies the western corner of Flendish hundred on the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Cambridge."[5] (Alan Rufus ‘Alan the Red', one of the Counts of Brittany, confiscated Hinton Manor from Edith, the (so-called “common law”) first wife of Harold II of England — Edith Swanneck: 'Eddeva The Fair') The War Ditches are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort (55 metres in diameter), now mostly lost to quarrying.The remaining area accounts for around 3500 people although ONS zones don't align with the village boundary (the LSOAs include Teversham and Fulbourn).Marshall Aerospace, the aircraft maintenance company and owners of Cambridge Airport, to the north was a major employer in recent decades.The former site includes Travis Perkins, Inca Digital, Semitool, Storage King, and Carl Zeiss.Lastly, Fulbourn Hospital (though not strictly within the village borders) has been redeveloped as the Capital Park technology park, and houses many smaller companies, with offices of Illumina, Staffords, Syngeta, i2, Cambridge Light Technology, Boult Wade Tennant, Scientia, Ware Anthony Rust, and others.Daws Lane is a track leading from Sidney Farm Road to Snakey Path at a small bridge over Cherry Hinton Brook.It starts in Railway Street, cutting across Orchard Estate (where few houses still have the corrugated iron fences that give this path its name).On the right it passes the Territorial Army centre and then meets Burnside somewhat closer to Mill Road than Snakey path, at the White Bridge.[13] Another path runs from the East end of Railway Street, East alongside the railway line to the North side of the Yarrow Road level crossing, which continues on the other side of the crossing beside Tesco's car park and on towards Fulbourn, where it joins the remnant of Fulbourn Old Drift.A less frequent service (Citi 16/17) runs from St Andrew's Church at the end of Coldham's Lane to the Beehive Retail Park and into town.The village also has a park and children's play area, (including a large paddling pool and two tennis courts) in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, which also hosts the internationally recognised annual Cambridge Folk Festival in July.Cherry Hinton C of E Primary School is situated on the High Street just next to the level crossing and near to St Andrew's church.Cherry Hinton Hall hosts the internationally recognised annual Cambridge Folk Festival in July.