Flint Cross
Flint Cross is a hamlet and crossroads in South Cambridgeshire, in the English county of Cambridgeshire. It is in the south of the district, where the east-west A505 road meets the B1368 road, which leads north to Fowlmere and south to Barley, Hertfordshire. In both main definitions of parish, in England, it is in Melbourn.
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Position
Nearby notable settlements are the town of Royston and the villages of Fowlmere and Duxford.
Landmarks
The milestone at Flint Cross, installed in 1731, is Grade II listed.[1] It has a benchmark inscribed on the side, currently at 39.9693 metres (131.133 ft) above mean sea level and stated by Ordnance Survey maps to be 132.3 feet above Ordnance Datum.[2] It is one of a series of waymarked milestones from Cambridge to Barkway, which were installed through a bequest from William Mowse, a lawyer who was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1552, whose coat of arms each bear.
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Buildings include the Coach House hotel.[3] and a petrol station. The hamlet is also the site of Bridgefoot Quarry[4] and Grange Farm, which was damaged by a fire in June 2009.[5] The Anglo-Saxon earthwork of Bran Ditch is to the east but has been mostly ploughed out.
The A505 here saw a series of traffic accidents.[4] A road safety scheme was implemented in October 2010 following a local campaign; however, a proposed reduction in the road's speed limit to 50 mph was not initially included.[6] The speed limit was imposed following a consultation.[7]
Civil parishes
The place is in the south of Melbourn,[1][8] as to civil parish, save for Bridgefoot Farm and houses west in Great and Little Chishill.[8]
Ecclesiastical parishes
The same, main, part is in Church of England parish of Melbourn that has identical boundaries;[9] however the south part is in a six-church-cluster parish: Icknield Way Villages.[9] Melbourn shares its cleric with Meldreth (see Shingay Deanery) and is in the Diocese of Ely. The other part is in the Diocese of Chelmsford.[9] In the Catholic church the relevant churches are in the Deanery of Cambridge, being between Cambourne and Sawston churches, which have a joint parish regular newsletter.[10]
References
- Historic England. "Milestone at Junction of A505 and B1368 (1127567)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- Ordnance Survey map of Cambridgeshire, at six inches to the mile, sheet LVIII.SE, Revised: 1896 to 1901, Published: 1904
- "Coach House Hotel website". Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
- "Peterborough City Council - Minerals and Waste Site Specific Proposals Preferred Options 2". Archived from the original on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- "Ten crews battle fire at converted barn: Royston Weekly News".
- "Sprayed signs leave councillor confused - News - Royston Crow".
- "Speed limits to reduce on major roads: Royston Crow".
- [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=52.07000&lon=0.04700&layers=168&b=7 National Libraries of Scotland (nls.uk) interactive maps of Britain, explore overlays, OS 1920s, Open Street Map.
- https://www.achurchnearyou.com/search/?lat=52.07&lon=0.047 Church of England parish maps and church finder
- Diocese of East Anglia church map
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