Public Services
There are two health centres in the village, one of which (the Cherry Hinton Medical Surgery) has a practice shared with Brookfields Health Centre on Seymour Street, Cambridge.
There is a village hall and leisure centre adjacent to the village library, with services currently operated by SLM Leisure. The Spinney Primary School, close to the village centre, has recently had a very successful Ofsted inspection. Other primary level schools are the Cherry Hinton Infants' School, which feeds into the Cherry Hinton Community Junior School, and Colville Primary School. Secondary schooling for most children is at Netherhall School, or alternatively at St Bede's Inter-Church Comprehensive School.
In the High Street there are a number of shops including a Tesco Express supermarket, a newsagent, Children's society charity shop, a Sue Ryder charity shop, a hairdresser, a barber, a bakery, two pharmacies, a cycle shop, a craft shop, two turf accountants and a post office. There is also a Tesco superstore towards Fulbourn. Meals are available at the Sitar Indian restaurant, the Golden Pizza Chinese/Pizza Takeaway and the Cherry House Chinese Takeaway & Chip Shop, as well as from the bakery which provides a variety of filled rolls and hot snack products.
The village has a well-appointed recreation ground situated on the high street. Here children's play equipment and football fields for local fixtures are provided. It also has a park and children's play area, including paddling pools and tennis courts, in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, which hosts an internationally recognised annual folk festival.
Cherry Hinton falls within the jurisdiction of Cambridge City Council and Cambridgeshire County Council for Local Government Services.
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