Cherry Hinton

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Cherry Hinton is a suburban area of the city of Cambridge, in Cambridgeshire, England. It is around 4mi southeast of Cambridge city centre.HistoryThe rectangular parish of Cherry Hinton occupies the western corner of Flendish hundred on the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Cambridge. (See Hundreds of Cambridgeshire.)There are some pictures and a description of the parish church at the Cambridgeshire Churches website.Cherry Hinton has an entry in the Domesday Book: "Hintone: Count Alan. 4 mills." (Alan Rufus ‘the Red', one of the Counts of Brittany, confiscated Hinton Manor from Edith, Harold II of England's common law first wife, Edith Swanneck: 'Eddeva The Fair')The War Ditches are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort (55 metres in diameter) where a massacre took place, now mostly lost to quarrying. (See Cherry Hinton Pit)GeographyCherry Hinton lies about 4mi southeast of Cambridge city centre, 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 chalk pits. The village itself is fairly compact. North of the village is Cambridge Airport; to the East is Fulbourn; to the South is Cherry Hinton Pit, 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.

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Cherry Hinton is Cambridge based place and this enity listed in City category.