Geography
Fulbourn lie around 5 miles South-South-east of the centre of Cambridge, separated from a outer City boundary by farml& and a evidence of Fulbourn Hospital. A village itself is fairly compact & about in the centre of the administrative parish. To a north & East of a village the l& is flat, drained fen; in the south and South-West the Gog Magog Hills rise to over 200 feet. Outside a community a land is open farmland, by using comparatively pack trees. There is the wooded metropolitan area including a Nature and severity Reserve to the East in the Manor evidence. A village is placed in a Cambridge Green Belt. the traditional parish boundaries watch a line of a Roman road & Icknield Way to the South-West & South-South-east, Fleam Dyke - an ancient defensive earthwork - to a East and the confluent of Quy Fluids that drain to the River Cam. A parish extends a few 5 miles N-South & foursome miles East-West.

Population
the majority of the people survive inside a half-mile square in the independent village. A independent cash settlement within a area of the Parish Church of St Vigor has extended in post-war years westward towards Cambridge and northwards within a narrow ribbon of development towards the previous station on the Cambridge-Newmarket railway. Material housing estate developments, two local authority & buck private keep around taken place in the village, particularly in the south-southwest & south of the centre. A civil parish contains extra housing placed on the edge of Cherry Hinton, which itself falls in a Cambridge City boundary.

A people of the ecclesiastic parish withinside 2001 has been approximated at astir 4,000, existence occasionally 78% of the civil parish approximated in 1998 at 5,100. This has grown from either the base of 1,440 witharound 1951 to 2,060 inside 1961 & 4,220 in 1971. A 1979 boundary changes moved occasionally (so) un-built-in l& from either either Fulbourn and a few part developed land from Teversham both into a ecclesiastic parish of Cherry Hinton, when it was considered a population residing there would look towards the churches inside victims parishes. Virtually all of the subsequent incubation in the administrative parish of Fulbourn has been in that metropolitan area which is non a share of the ecclesiastic parish. Around 1998 a population of the civil parish was manufactured higher of 1,000 people under Xvi, 3,100 aged 16-59, & 1,000 all over Lx. A economically active people was figured at 2,600.

Employment
Inside commons by having changes withinside a post-war years virtually all of the residents in employment act outside the village, in Cambridge & elsewhere. Existence just about Addenbrookes' Hospital an increasing total use at times encountered function there. Inside a village itself there exists employment inside industrial areas just about a former Train depot & elsewhere in the north of the village. There are too sales person agents around the former Vicarage & Pumping Station & the underdeveloped Business Park in the previous Hospital buildings & in newly ones close-by. Others come listed around service industries like retail shops & around education. Agriculture though however significant within land utilise terms exclusively employs the little total.

Local Services
Fulbourn Hospital was built as an asylum in a mid-19th century between the village & Cherry Hinton. Until recently a independent Victorian building was utilized as a psychiatric hospital, when a 1960's Kent Home to a west was built for intense mental health patients & the Ida Darwin Hospital to the east was developed for the mentally disabled. the independent buildings own currently been transformed into a Business Park although a few intense facilities remain. From either 540 patients at a hospitals around 1981 this has at present been substantially reduced, by using thus numbers of ex-patients existence affected into a community.

Apart from either a leftover hospital units, there is a Health Centre in the village by owning one practice, though this is depending at premiss on the edge of Cambridge. There exists besides the foot doctor in the village.

There is a community centre & a village hall in separate web sites, the latter existence adjacent to the extensive recreation ground. There is a retirement page, Page Close, in a village: a Minister of religion presently sits on the Residents Committee, visits the personal regularly & conducts services there. the Fulbourn Primary School, approximately a village centre, has astir 270 in roll & has recently got a super successful Ofsted review. A Minister attends Assemblies at a school throughout a term, alternate by having a Minister of the URC. Secondary schooling for virtually all youngsters is at a Village College inside Bottisham five miles to the North, though numbers of parents see to send their kids to schools within Cambridge. There exists too a favorite school inside the parish which caters for learning disorder, though this school's new is under discussion now.

In the High Street there are the total of shops including the Co-op supermarket, the butcher, the greengrocer, the chemist, the flower shop & a post professional. There exists too a Tesco superstore inside a parish just about the hospital places. the village has a swell appointive recreation ground adjacent to which is the village hall. [http://www.project.fulbourn.org Plans are in hand] to modernise the hall & add the sports & guild & a little indoor sports hall. Fulbourn lessens inside a jurisdiction of Cambridgeshire County Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council for Local Government Services.

Future Developments
Proposals for important extra housing northwards of the village when 2016 involved in the todays Structure Project read develop been smartly fought per Parish & Territorial dominion Councils. A Panel which conducted & examination into a read stand recommended that these proposals become dropped. These are required, all a same, whatever the effect, a bit of extra housing might occur in or even even on the edge of the village in the next Tenner years or and then. Apart from either a underdeveloped Business Park already mentioned no todays proposals for extra employment chance around Fulbourn.