Relhan Collection : 120 Cherry Hinton. SW view of village

Relhan, Richard, 1782-1844

Relhan Collection

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>This view, apparently drawn from the area of high ground on Lime Kiln Road, shows the village separated by a brook and marshy ground into Uphall (or Church End), and Nether Hall (or Mill End) to the S. These marshes and streams, looking here like a brook, were drained later in C19, depriving dons and students of excellent wild fowling country and a naturalist’s paradise until it was drained after Enclosure in 1810. The 2 small areas of housing depicted here were surrounded by an enviable mix of good pasture (with closes built for sheep), ploughed land still under strip cultivation, trees and woodland, and there was access to the Fens, seen here in the distance. The houses and a thatched barn look quite substantial. Fulbourn Old Drift ran between Cambridge and Fulbourn through the N section of the parish, but in winter waterlogged marshland almost isolated Cherry Hinton from Cambridge until there was a programme of effective drainage in the mid C19. Churches in the distance are Teversham and Stow cum Quy. The view is unrecognisable now, for the village has been highly-developed and subsumed into Cambridge, while the population has risen from 234 in 1811 to 8780 (2020), although some of the character of the High Street and around Church End has been protected.</p><p>Taylor 1999; VCH 2002</p></p>