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Abbots Ripton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. It is situated five miles (8 km) north of Huntingdon, on the B1090. The civil parish includes the nearby hamlet of Wennington. The village itself occupies some of land and is home to 309 residents (2001 census). It has a church dedicated to St Andrew, a shop, garage, post office and a pub The Three Horseshoes. It also has a schoolthe Abbots Ripton CofE Primary School which teaches 109 children (2006 census). and it is home to the 18th century Abbots Ripton Hall which now has an estate totalling , larger than Abbots Ripton itself; its grounds contain some quite rare trees including — quite unusual in England — a good collection of elm trees which are injected every year to prevent Dutch elm disease. Also based in the area is The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, a research centre in the land and freshwater environmental sciences. The village is also notable as the location of the Abbots Ripton railway disaster in 1876 in which a Flying Scotsman train was wrecked during a blizzard. The disaster led to important safety improvements in railway signalling. Research Tips
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