Abbots Ripton is a
village and
civil parish in
Cambridgeshire,
England, It is situated five miles north of
Huntingdon, on the B1090 in an
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The civil parish includes the nearby hamlet of Wennington.The
village itself occupies some 4191 acres of land and is home to 309 residents,(2001 census) it has a
Church dedicated to St Andrew, a shop, garage,
post office and a
pub The Three Horseshoes. It also has a
schoolthe Abbots Ripton CofE Primary School which teaches 109 children,(2006 census) and it is home to the 18th century Abbots Ripton Hall which now has an estate totalling 5700 acres, larger than Abbots Ripton itself , its grounds contain some quite rare trees including quite unique in
England a good collection of
Elm trees which are injected every year to prevent
Dutch elm disease. Also based in the area is The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
[1] a research centre in the land and freshwater environmental sciences.
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