page_title: The Abingtons, Cambridgeshire
section_title: Village life
hierarchical_section_title: The Abingtons, Cambridgeshire / Village life
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking north along the high street, Great Abington The delightful twin villages of Great and Little Abington have a wealth of thatched timber framed cottages. Each village having its own ancient church, both confusingly dedicated to St Mary. The river Granta separates the two communities and was spanned by a rather severe hump-backed bridge. It was bombed during WW2 and subsequently replaced by a level one
context_page_description: The Abingtons are a community in South Cambridgeshire consisting of two villages: Little Abington and Great Abington, about 7 miles south east of Cambridge.
context_section_description: The village has a vibrant community with a primary school, village shop, pub, football and cricket team and a large number of local businesses, most of them at Granta Park including The Welding Institute which started in Abington Hall in 1946. In 2009 Abington cricket club played a friendly against Babraham cricket club to commemorate 150 years of the cricket team.
  The village also has a village hall, called The Abington Institute, which has a café, a large main hall with video projection and an audio system allowing the showing of films and presentations. It also has a meeting room, another large room overlooking the cricket pitch and two changing rooms with showers. The Institute is used by many local clubs and organisations and also hosts regular lunches for older Abington residents.
  The remaining public house, The Three Tuns in Great Abington, is a 17th-century building that was possibly open in 1687 and certainly by 1756. Former pubs in Little Abington include The Crown which closed in the late 20th century, and The Bricklayers' Arms, which opened in the mid-19th century and was sold in 1912. The Princess (later Prince) of Wales in Great Abington opened at the end of the 19th century and closed in about 1963. The King's Arms opened on the Stump Cross to Newmarket road (now the A11) just north of Bourn Bridge in the late 17th century, closing in 1850 with the advent of the railway. The antiquary William Cole was born there while his father was publican. The White Hart opened on the same road just south of the bridge in around 1750, but closed by the end of the century.
caption: Great Abington
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