Place:Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, England

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Cherry Hinton is now a suburban area of the City of Cambridge District, in Cambridgeshire, England. It is around 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Cambridge city centre. It was absorbed into Cambridge in 1934 and is now named as one of the wards of the City of Cambridge District.

The rectangular parish of Cherry Hinton occupies the western corner of Flendish Hundred on the southeastern outskirts of the city of Cambridge. Its parish church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The population, according to the UK census of 2011, was 8,780.

Although it falls within the Cambridge City boundary it is geographically separated from it by the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge Airfield and the flooded chalk pits. The village itself is fairly compact. To the east is the parish of 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.

The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"CHERRY-HINTON, a parish in Chesterton [registration] district, Cambridgeshire; on the Cambridge and Newmarket railway, under Gogmagog hills, 2¼ miles ESE of Cambridge. It has a post office under Cambridge. Acres: 2,043. Real property: £4,942. Population: 734. Houses: 157. The property is divided among a few.

"Cherry-trees were once plentiful; saffron is produced; and chalk fossils and iron pyrites are found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value: £164. Patron: Peter House [college], Cambridge. The church is early English, in good condition; and contains some monuments and an ancient font. A school has £35 from endowment; and other charities £61. The Cambridge water-works are here."

Research Tips

• Original historical documents relating to Cambridgeshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS
• The Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society has transcribed the parish registers for many if not all the ancient parishes of Cambridgeshire and these can be purchased from the Society as separate pdfs.
• A History of the County of Cambridge. Seven volumes from British History Online (Victoria County Histories). This is by far the most complete history of the parishes of the county to be found online. From the numbering it would appear that some parts of the county are yet to be published online, but the first two volumes for any county are of little interest to the genealogist. The chapters are ordered by the divisions of the county called hundreds, but each parish is listed in the volume's content page.

• A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City (Cambridge) and University of Cambridge (published 1959)
• A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; North Ely and South Ely, Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds (the cathedral city and liberty of Ely and the rural areas to the west and northwest, including the port of Wisbech) (published 2002)
• A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 5, the Hundreds of Longstowe and Wetherley, west of Cambridge (published 1973)
• A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 6, the three Hundreds of Chilford, Radfield and Whittlesford (in the south of the county, on the border with Essex) (published 1978)
• A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 8, Armingford and Thriplow Hundreds (south and west of Cambridge) (published 1982)
• A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9, Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds (the suburban and rural areas to the north and northwest of Cambridge) (published 1989)
• A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10, Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (northeastern Cambridgeshire) (published 2002)

• GENUKI has a page on Cambridgeshire and pages for each of the ecclesiastical or ancient parishes in the county. These give references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. Each parish page includes a map of the parish provided by Open Street Maps.
• The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date.
• A Vision of Britain through Time, section "Units and Statistics" for each parish and borough leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974.
• Map of Cambridgeshire divisions in 1888 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
• Map of Cambridge divisions in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time