Cherry Hinton - Cultural References

Cultural References

Fulbourn Hospital, to the East of Cherry Hinton was built as an asylum in the mid-19th century between the village and Fulbourn. Until recently the main Victorian building was used as a psychiatric hospital. It is this hospital which gave rise to the lines "Strong men have run for miles and miles, When one from Cherry Hinton smiles;" in the poem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke.

The settlement of Cherry Hinton gives its name to the Cherry Hinton Stakes a race for two year old thoroughbred fillies. This is a Group Two event run over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 m) on the July Course at nearby Newmarket Racecourse in early July.

For the last 25 years of his life, Cherry Hinton was the home of Syd Barrett, the former frontman of Pink Floyd.