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Cherry Tree
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Picture source: Ray
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The Cherry Tree was situated at 9-11
Oundle Road. This Greene King pub closed in 2016. |
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Source: Karl Moreno |
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Originally two cottages knocked
together in the early 1800’s, converted into a one bar layout in 1988.
Received a CAMRA Gold Award in April 2010. Close to Nene Valley Railway. Was
a favourite of Peterborough United fans and local residents. Reputedly
haunted. Closed in 2016. In February 2020 fans of the Cherry Tree were
campaigning to save the pub and a meeting took place on 19 February at the
South Grove Community Centre, Woodston to discuss saving the pub. On 29
April 2020 Milton (Peterborough) Estates Company announced they had
completed on the sale of the former Cherry Tree Inn public house and land to
the rear. Following a tender process conducted by Barker Storey Matthews,
there was a lot of interest in the site, with the sale price exceeding the
initial guide price of £400,000. |
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Ray Cole (September 2020) |
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From Peterborough Heritage: |
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In 2021 Heritage Archaeology presented an
historic environment assessment of known and potential effects of proposed
development on archaeology and built heritage within an area of 0.4 hectares
located at Oundle Road, within the parish of Old Fletto. Evidence for
prehistoric, Roman and early medieval activity has been found in both
parishes. During the medieval period the proposed development site is likely
to have been agricultural land associated with the village at Fletton. The
Cherry Tree Public House (locally listed) was built on the site in the
late19th century, at which time the back plot was an orchard with some
recorded outbuildings. The orchard trees are not annotated after 1901 and
the outbuildings within the pub’s back plot are reorganised over the 20th
century. The building itself appears to be a purpose-built public house
reflecting the development of Fletton and Woodston, serving a growing
population associated with industrial developments in those areas. The pub
name potentially reflects the orchard that once stood to the rear of the
building. The archaeological potential of the site is low to moderate for
the prehistoric to post medieval periods and high for the later post
medieval period. The use of the back plot as the pub car park and garden
indicates that archaeology could be expected to survive at this location,
particularly associated with the later post medieval activity documented on
historic mapping. |
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