Bar Hill
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Bar Hill | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | CAMBRIDGE | |
Postcode district | CB23 | |
Dialling code | 01954 | |
Police | Cambridgeshire | |
Fire | Cambridgeshire | |
Ambulance | East of England | |
UK Parliament | ||
Bar Hill is a
History
Prior to the building of the Bar Hill settlement the area was occupied by Bar Farm, named after the toll bar that was in place along the Roman Road running immediately to the North of the site. The farm house and toll gate still remain in the village.
Planning for the village began in the late 1950s to alleviate the housing shortage in South
The village grew rapidly in the 1970s, including the completion of a pub, a church, and a hotel with its own golf course, and by 1975 there was a population of 1,673 in its 599 homes. The village's original supermarket closed in 1976 but was replaced in 1977 by a very large branch of Tesco, accompanied by an extensive car park.[2] A village hall was completed in 1979, and expansion continued in the 1980s, with further transfer of land from Dry Drayton.[2] In 1989 the final house of the original plan was completed, 23 years after the building had begun and 15 years after its planned completion. The population was at that time over 5,000.[3]
On 8 August 2014 the village came to national prominence when over 100mm of rain fell in a period of approximately 30 minutes, causing many parts of the village to become flooded.[5]
Village life
The village has a
Bar Hill was originally contained within a ring road when it was first developed, but with the expansion and development of the area, it began to spill out. For example the "Gleneagles" development overlooking the golf course.
The village has been supported by the Bar Hill Residents' Association since its inception in 1967 [7] and has a long-running magazine (the Bar Hill News) which has been published eleven or twelve times a year since then.
In May 2021 a new charity, the Bar Hill Community Association,[8] was established in the village the stated intention behind the charity is to support the village. The production of the Bar Hill News was transferred from the Residents Association to the Community Association once the setup was completed.
The history of the village was recorded by Roger Hall (the village historian) who published a book "Bar Hill - A Social History 1949 to 2001" in 2002. Following Roger's passing in April 2022[9] his extensive collection of documents and records was passed to the Bar Hill Community Association to manage.
In 2017, Bar Hill was one of many areas that benefitted by the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme which was completed in 2020.
As of 2024, Bar Hill’s Hotel is currently being used to house a maximum of 272 people who have arrived in England after crossing the English Channel by boat.[10][11][12]
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Tesco Extra
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Church
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Village hall and field
Transport
The only road access to Bar Hill is via the B1050 at Junction 25 of the A14, where it also meets the A1307. It has a cycle path, The Drift, to Dry Drayton,[13] and other Rights Of Way access to Lolworth and Longstanton.
See also
- Cambourne, another, later, planned village in South Cambridgeshire
- Northstowe, a new town in South Cambridgeshire close to Bar Hill
- Longstanton, a small village immediately to the North of Bar Hill (over the A14)
- Dry Drayton, the Parish from which the original land for Bar Hill was ceded on 1 April 1966[14]
References
- ^ "Census Maps | Cambridgeshire Insight". Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f "Dry Drayton: Introduction | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ a b "Bar Hill - a short history". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
- ^ Elliott, Chris (29 January 2017). "50th anniversary of first houses built at Bar Hill". CambridgeshireLive. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ "BBC - Clean-up under way after flash flooding".
- ^ Chappell, Bob. "History". barhillchurch.org.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ "Bar Hill News - Issue 1 (1967)". Internet Archive. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "Bar Hill Community Association Charity Details". Charity Commission. Archived from the original on 16 April 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Funeral Notices - Roger Hall". Funeral Notices. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "Home Office use Bar Hill hotel to house asylum seekers". www.scambs.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ^ "MP expresses concern to home secretary over use of Bar Hill hotel to house asylum seekers". Cambridge Independent. 2023. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ^ Field, B. (2023). "'Knock-on effect' fears over Cambs hotel asylum seeker scheme". Cambridgeshire Live. Retrieved 24 December 2023.[dead link]
- ^ "DRY DRAYTON". domesday.
- ^ Hall, Roger (2002). Bar Hill - A Social History. p. 18.