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Bar Hill is a purpose-built village with a population of 4000 about 7 km northwest of Cambridge on the A14 road. Planning began in the late 1950s to alleviate the housing shortage in South Cambridgeshire, and the first residents moved in 1967. Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ... The A14 is a major road in England, running from the Port of Felixstowe to the junction of the M1 and M6 motorways near Rugby. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...


The village has a shopping mall (with a large Tesco extra supermarket as anchor store), a library, primary school, multi-denominational church and a pub called The Fox. Recently the village has built a skate park a few hundred meters from the Tesco, and around 50 meters from the pub. McArthur Glen Designer Outlet, Swindon, England, a shopping mall built within a disused railway engine works. ... In retail, an anchor store, or draw tenant, is one of the larger stores in a shopping mall, usually a department store in a major retail chain, such as Macys or JCPenney. ...


The village has a cycle path to Dry Drayton, known as The Drift.


Location: 52°15′8″N, 0°1′14″E


See also

  • Cambourne, another, later, planned village in South Cambridgeshire

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