Cherry Hinton Cambridgeshire Family History Guide

Cherry Hinton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHERRY-HINTON, a parish in Chesterton 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. Pop., 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, 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.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cambridgeshire, Cherry-Hinton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Index of graves in the churchyard of St. Andrew’s, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge : ordered by surnames
Author: Hole, Richard; Slater, Lucy Joan; Cambridgeshire Family History Society

England, Cambridgeshire, Cherry-Hinton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Cherry Hinton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cambridgeshire, Cherry-Hinton – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Cherry-Hinton, 1599-1851
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cherry-Hinton (Cambridgeshire)

An indexed transcription of the parish registers of Cherry Hinton : baptisms, 1538-1950; marriages, 1538-1950; burials, 1538-1950; banns, 1757-1921
Author: Layng, T. P. R (Thomas Peter Royson), 1901-1985; Church of England. Parish Church of Cherry-Hinton (Cambridgeshire); Cambridgeshire Family History Society

Parish registers for Cherry-Hinton, 1538-1876
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cherry-Hinton (Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Cherry-Hinton – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Cherry Hinton, Cambs., Eng

England, Cambridgeshire, Cherry-Hinton – History ( 2 )
Over the hills to Cherry Hinton : a local history
Author: Coppock, H. C.

What’s in a name?
Author: Hoye, Richard

England, Cambridgeshire, Cherry-Hinton – Land and property ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Cherry-Hinton, 1759-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Cherry-Hinton – Schools ( 2 )
School records of Cherry-Hinton Church of England School, 1874-1925
Author: Cherry-Hinton Church of England School (Cherry-Hinton, Cambridgeshire)

School records of Morley Memorial Church of England School, 1900-1925
Author: Morley Memorial Church of England School (Cherry-Hinton, Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Cherry-Hinton – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Cherry-Hinton, 1759-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)

Administration

  • County: Cambridgeshire
  • Civil Registration District: Chesterton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Ely
  • Diocese: Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Cambridge
  • Poor Law Union: Chesterton
  • Hundred: Flendish
  • Province: Canterbury