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Date of photo: 2008	© Copyright Keith Edkins and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
The Five Bells was situated at 145 High Street, Cherry Hinton. This pub was built in the 1960s. It closed in 2010 and has now been demolished.
From Cambridgeshire Heritage:
Evaluation prior to development at 143 High Street, Cherry Hinton; the former site of the Five Bells public house revealed a small quantity of ditches and pits, dated by scarce medieval pottery in their fills. The Five Bells public house was constructed in the 1960s but before that, the site was occupied by buildings and gardens as illustrated on the 1st-3rd edition OS maps. During evaluation, the contour of the surrounding land showed a noticeable gradient and that the site had been levelled. The archaeology in all trenches except trench three was sealed by a significant amount of levelling material (mostly brick and rubble) deposited to create the public house car park. Pits, post holes and ditches recorded across the site contained small quantities of medieval pottery. A ditch followed the alignment of the High Street and may have functioned as a drainage ditch to an earlier road surface or trackway. A buried soil horizon likely derived from the back gardens of the terraced housing that previously occupied the site was recorded in trench 3.
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