Flint Cross
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| Flint Cross | |
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 Flint Cross, looking West towards the Coach House Hotel | |
  Flint Cross Location within Cambridgeshire | |
| Civil parish | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Cambridgeshire |
| Fire | Cambridgeshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
Flint Cross is a hamlet and crossroads in South Cambridgeshire, in the English county of Cambridgeshire. It is in the south of the district, where the east–west A505 road meets the B1368 road, which leads north to Fowlmere and south to Barley, Hertfordshire. In both main definitions of parish, in England, it is in Melbourn.
Landmarks
The milestone at Flint Cross, installed in 1731, is Grade II listed.[1] It has a benchmark inscribed on the side, currently at 39.9693 metres (131.133 ft) above mean sea level and stated by Ordnance Survey maps to be 132.3 feet above Ordnance Datum.[2] It is one of a series of waymarked milestones from Cambridge to Barkway, which were installed through a bequest from William Mowse, a lawyer who was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1552, whose coat of arms each bear.
Buildings include the Coach House hotel.[3] and a petrol station. The hamlet is also the site of Bridgefoot Quarry[4] and Grange Farm, which was damaged by a fire in June 2009.[5] The Anglo-Saxon earthwork of Bran Ditch is to the east but has been mostly ploughed out.
The A505 here saw a series of traffic accidents.[4] A road safety scheme was implemented in October 2010 following a local campaign; however, a proposed reduction in the road's speed limit to 50 mph was not initially included.[6] The speed limit was imposed following a consultation.[7]
