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Cherry Hinton Hall is a small house and park in Cherry Hinton, to the south of Cambridge, England. The house and grounds are owned and managed by Cambridge City Council. The Hall is most well known for hosting the annual Cambridge Folk Festival, an ever-growing (in size and popularity) event that regularly draws thousands to the park. During the summer months, aside from hosting the Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall is alive with predominantly young families enjoying the wide open grass spaces and the large duck pond which for many is the defining feature of the park along with the vast array of other wildlife living there. Many community activities also take place in the park, such as an archaeological and buildings survey carried out by children at the local St Bede's Inter-Church School, in 2007. In 2007, Cherry Hinton Hall became home to Cambridge International School and later (Holme Court School ) for dyslexics. The two schools are owned by the Sturdy family who also own Sancton Wood School in Cambridge. In 2009 The (Friends of Cherry Hinton Hall ) formed a new group of people concerned about the usage, environment, welfare and future of the park for the benefit of those who use it most. The friends want to act as advocates / champions of Cherry Hinton Hall grounds for the general public and act as a communication channel between the Council and public. ==John and Mary Okes== John Okes was a surgeon at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. He was born in 1793 in Cambridge. His father was Thomas Verney Okes who was a doctor at the Addenbrookes Hospital. John served his apprenticeship with his father and later qualified at Cambridge University to become a very successful surgeon.〔Rook, Arthur et al 1991“The History of Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge”, p. 86. Online reference http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jEdsk0SYavEC&pg=PA86&dq=okes+%22addenbrooke's+hospital%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4G7wUubnFMfEkQXIwoCoDQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=okes%20%22addenbrooke's%20hospital%22&f=false〕 In 1824 John married Mary Elizabeth Collin Martin who was the only daughter of Joseph Martin Esq. of Epping.〔Cambridge Chronicle and Journal - Friday 03 September 1824, p. 3.〕 The couple lived in Cambridge for some time. Between 1831 and John purchased the old enclosures at Mill End Close, and the land at Mill End common then in 1839 he built Cherry Hinton Hall on this land.〔‘Cherry Hinton: Manors and other estates', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002), pp. 106-109. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18807 Date accessed: 05 February 2014〕 John Okes outlined in a court case the improvements he made to the land. He said when he bought it there was only an old farm house on it. He built the Hall and then laid out the gardens. He made the following statement in 1854. “I have laid out a considerable sum of money in planting. When I purchased the estate the Cherry Hinton Brook ran through it. The whole stream came from two springs skirting my property. In building the house I selected the spot with a view of making ornamental water. I cut a channel and made the lake in a great measure and have been every year enlarging it. I have stocked the stream for trout and dug a pond for pike".〔Cambridge Independent Press - Saturday 04 November 1854, p. 3.〕 John died in 1870 and the Cherry Hinton Estate was sold to the Cambridge University and Town Waterworks Company. The next resident of the Hall was one of the Directors of the Waterworks Company.〔UK Census of 1881 and Cambridge City Council, “Cambridge Mayors”, p. . Online reference https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/sites/www.cambridge.gov.uk/files/documents/Cambridge_Mayors_1835-onwards.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cherry Hinton Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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