History
The 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 sadly mostly lost to quarrying. (See Cherry Hinton Pit)
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