Cherry Hinton Hall

Community activities also take place in the park, such as an archaeological and buildings survey carried out by local schoolchildren in 2007.

The Friends of Cherry Hinton Hall was formed in 2009 as a group concerned about the usage, environment, welfare and future of the park for the benefit of those who use it most.

[1] Cherry Hinton Hall was built in 1839 by John Okes (1793-1870), a surgeon at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.

He had been apprenticed to his father, Thomas Verney Okes, a doctor at Addenbrookes Hospital, before qualifying at the University of Cambridge as a surgeon.

[5] On Okes's death in 1870 the Cherry Hinton estate was sold to the Cambridge University and Town Waterworks Company.

In 1902[10] solicitor Sir William Phene Neal, 1st Baronet (Lord Mayor of London in 1930) and his wife came to live at the Hall, and remained there for many years.