Cottenham is a large and prosperous village with a wide variety of shops and facilities. There is a Post Office, Chemist, Building Society, library, doctors, dentist, pubs, and churches, we also have in the village a butchers, bakers, green grocers, a major Award winning Curry Palace, a fish and chip shop / Chinese, a medium-sized Co-Op, two paper shops / general stores, cake shop, two social clubs, carpet shops, a Travis Perkins Builders Merchants, a picture framing shop, Fire Station, 2 ladies hairdressers and a Barber, plus two Tescos Super Stores within 15 minutes drive. Supermarkets such as Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsbury’s etc. deliver to the park.
Cottenham also has several schools, including a large Village College that runs evening and day activity classes. There are Tennis Courts, a Bowling Green and club , new sports pavilion and a horse racing at the Point-to-Point Racecourse situated on the outskirts of the village, with a number of Golf Clubs just a few miles away, plus many fishing lakes and rivers close by.
There is also a thriving village seen with traditional events such as the Feast Parade, Summer Fair on the Green, Family Festival, Open Gardens and many other events arranged by the Locals.
Cottenham is situated 5.5 miles to the north of the picturesque University City of Cambridge. The City has a famous historical and cultural centre with numerous Museums, Galleries and Theatres, beautiful parks and river walks. There is also the usual modern-day city infrastructure of large Shopping areas, large Hospitals, and Bus and Rail stations combined with many Hi-tech and local businesses.
The nearest train station to our park is Waterbeach which is around 10 mins. by car, there is also Cambridge North new train station which is only 6 miles away, or The Cathedral City of Ely which is only 12 miles away.
There is a regular bus service into Cambridge from Cottenham running every 20 minutes daily. We are well served by the M11 and A14 major trunk roads, giving speedy access to London, the North and the peaceful East Anglian Countryside and Coastline. In fact all the right ingredients for a pleasant but by no means isolated retirement.
The park has an events team who organise monthly meetng for residents in the local British legion Hall, and also arrange BBQ’s for all the residents near the lake in the summer.