HINTON (CHERRY), a parish in the hundred of
FLENDISH, county of CAMBRIDGE, 2 miles (E. by S.)
from Cambridge, containing 474 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Ely, rated in the king's books at £9. 14. 7.,
and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Peter
House, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew,
stands near the Gogmagog hills:, the valley
beneath was formerly noted for an abundance of
cherry trees growing in it; it is now the principal
spot in the county where saffron is cultivated. Various
fossil teeth, and vertebrae of fish, are found in the
chalk pits here.