Perry
Perry is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, approximately 6 miles south-west of Huntingdon. Perry is in Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and historic county of England.Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,740 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Perry, Cambridgeshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grafham Water and HM Prison Littlehey.
Grafham Water
Reservoir
Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grafham Water is an 806.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Perry, Huntingdonshire. It was designated an SSSI in 1986. It is a reservoir with a circumference of about 16 km, is 21 m deep at maximum, and is the eighth largest reservoir in England by volume and the joint third largest by area at 6.27 km2.
HM Prison Littlehey
Prison
Photo: Simonxag, Public domain.
HM Prison Littlehey is a Category C male prison in the village of Perry near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England. Littlehey Prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. The Prison only holds those that have been convicted of a sexual offence.
Gaynes Hall
Building
Gaynes Hall is a Grade II* listed Georgian mansion set in 20 acres of parkland in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside. Located in the village of Perry, Huntingdon the building was requisitioned during the Second World War and was also the residence of Sir Oliver Cromwell for 21 years.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stonely and Southoe.
Stonely
Village
Stonely is a hamlet next to Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England. It is part of the civil parish of Kimbolton, which is served by Kimbolton and Stonely Parish Council. Stonely is situated 2½ miles west of Perry.
Southoe
Village
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southoe is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Southoe and Midloe, in Cambridgeshire, England. Southoe lies approximately 6 miles south-west of Huntingdon on the A1. Southoe is situated 3 miles southeast of Perry.
Duloe
Hamlet
Photo: Michael Trolove, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Duloe is a hamlet in the English county of Bedfordshire. A former spelling of the name may be "Devylho" or "Deuylho", as seen in 1460, in a legal record. Duloe is situated 4 miles south of Perry.
Perry
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Perry, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.28877° or 52° 17′ 20″ northLongitude
-0.3191° or 0° 19′ 9″ westPopulation
1,740Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)Open location code
9C4X7MQJ+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 90779748OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12022223Wikidata ID
Q2496217
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Perry” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بري”
- Cebuano: “Perry”
- Chinese: “Perry”
- Dutch: “Perry”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برى”
- French: “Perry”
- Irish: “Perry”
- Italian: “Perry (Cambridgeshire)”
- Italian: “Perry”
- Ladin: “Perry”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Perry (Cambridgeshire)”
- Persian: “پری، کمبریجشر”
- Polish: “Perry”
- Swedish: “Perry, Cambridgeshire”
- Swedish: “Perry”
- Turkish: “Perry, Cambridgeshire”
- Urdu: “پیری، کیمبرج شائر”
- Welsh: “Perry, Swydd Gaergrawnt”
- Welsh: “Perry”
- “Perry”
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