Dry Drayton Village Facilities
The Black Horse
Transport
Local Libraries
Refuse collection and recycling
Police
Letterboxing
Post Offices
Boot Sales
The Black Horse, Dry Drayton
Appears now to be closed for business. The premises are up for sale and the owners are seeking a new license.
Dry Drayton Transport
Park and Ride Red Route, Madingley Road Park and Ride into Cambridge (check latest details on their web site)
Monday to Friday buses leave the Madingley Road Park and Ride site every 10 mins from 07.00
to 19.58, stopping at Northampton street, the Round Church, Emmanuel Street
and the Grafton Centre. Fare for an adult is 1.80 return. 2 children travel
free when accompanied by an adult. Sunday service every 15 mins 09.00 - 18.00.
Sunday Service operates on May and August bank holidays.
Return busses from City Centre every 10 minutes beginning at 07:15 (Monday -
Friday), 08:20 (Saturday) until 20.00. On Sundays every 15 minutes from 09.15
to 18.15pm.
Citi 4 Service runs from Madingley Road Park and Ride site to Addenbrookes Hospital. Leaves the Park and Ride every 15 mins on the quarter hours between 07.00 and 19.30 Monday to Friday. Returns from Addenbrookes Stand D every 15 minutes from 07.30 - 19.30, journey time 24 minutes. University card holders travel free. (check latest details on their web site)
Whippet 08 (check latest details on their web site)
09.45 Monday - Saturday, Hill View Dry Drayton, 10.10 Cambridge Drummer St
10.45 Monday - Saturday, Hill View Dry Drayton, 11.10 Cambridge Drummer St
13.55 Monday - Saturday, Hill View Dry Drayton, 14.20 Cambridge Drummer St
10.20 Monday - Saturday, Cambridge Drummer Street, Bay 3, 10.45 Hill View Dry
Drayton
12.30 Monday - Saturday, Cambridge Drummer Street, Bay 3, 12.55 Hill View Dry
Drayton
16.20 Monday - Saturday, Cambridge Drummer Street, Bay 3, 16.55 Hill View Dry
Drayton
Cambus 14 (check latest details on their web site)
07.17 Monday - Friday, Hill View Dry Drayton, 08.05 Cambridge, Emmanuel Street
18.05 Monday to Friday, Cambridge St Andrews Street, 18.42 Hill View,
Dry Drayton
Dry Drayton - Tescos (check latest details on their web site - via the Tesco Store Locator)
10.45 Tuesday Dry Drayton Church, 10.55 Tescos Bar Hill
12.25 Tuesday Tescos Bar Hill 12.35 Dry Drayton Church
14.30 Tuesday Tescos Bar Hill 14.40 Dry Drayton Church
Local Libraries around Dry Drayton
We are well served by a number of local libraries a short drive away from the village as well as the mobile library visits to the village. The Libraries and Information Service operate a scheme were borrowed material can be returned to any library - so why not ring the changes until you find your own favourite local library. Opening hours all differ - if you are prepared to traven you can find a library open into the early evening most weekdays. These times reflect the extended hours in some libraries due to the closure of the Lion Yard Library in central Cambridge. We are told that the Central Library could be open by September 2009 - but there have been numerous set backs and delays - so its best to regard this as at best the latest estimate. Bar Hill Library changed its opening hours from 15th June 2009 closing from 12.30 to 2.30 and opening on Tuesday afternoons. The new hours are:
Mon - 10-12.30, 2.30-5.30pm
Tues - 2.30-5.30pm
Wed - 10-12.30, 2.30-7.00pm
Thur - 10-12.30, 2.30-5.30pm
Fri - 2.30-5.30pm
Sat - 9.30-1.00pm
You can check times in case of changes or unexpected closures for any of the County's libraries by phoning 0845 045 5225, and using the County Council's site.
Mobile Library
Every other Thursday; 24/1/2008, 7/2/2008, 21/2/2008, 6/3/2008, 20/3/2008.
Pettitts Lane 12.40 - 13.05. For any changes see the County Council Libraries site
Other libraries nearby are: Bar Hill Library, Gladeside, Bar Hill, Comberton Library, Comberton Village College, Cottenham Library, Margett Street, Cottenham, Histon Library, School Hill, Histon.
Refuse Collection and Recycling
It's now official - South Cambs District Council notified residents via the Cambridge Evening News that we can now put all kitchen food waste in our green wheeled bins - this includes cooked food, meat and fish and bones, old vegetables, fruit peelings, coffee filters, tea bags, egg shells and bread. The change has come about because the contractor who deals with collection and disposal has now been licenced to deal with this waste.
Collection every Wednesday. Alternate weeks - week 1 collection of green wheelie
bin + green box: week 2 collection of black wheelie bin. Check out the rota
on the South
Cambs Web Site
Service provided by South Cambridgeshire District Council - Commercial Services.
For further information please telephone: 0845 650 0280
Alternatively you can fax on 01954 713149 or send an email to refuse@scambs.gov.uk
or write to:
South Cambridgeshire District Council
Commercial Services
Dickerson Industrial Estate
Ely Rd, Waterbeach
Cambridge
CB5 9PG
Their web site is here
There is a rumour that the number of green boxes in this village is always one less at the end of the collection round, than at the beginning. The collectors pick up your box, empty it as they drive along and leave it six or seven doors away - those who label their boxes chase them down the street - those who don't label them could always be the unlucky folks left without a bin at the end of the round. It's a bit like the childrens' party game of musical chairs. Try not to get upset if it is you - they will probably leave someone else's box outside when they next do the rounds, just hope it isn't one with an address on it......
There are re-cycling facilities at Tescos Car Park Bar Hill, now including banks for recycling plastics, and there is a bottle bank at the entrance to Dry Drayton School. The nearest local authority re-cycling centre is at Milton - open weekdays summer 9-8 and weekends summer 9-6pm. Full details on the Milton Recycling Centre site
Re-cycle bottles at Dry Drayton School
Police
Emergency - 999
Non emergency contact number 0345 456 456 4.
Local Beat Officer, PC Kevin Misik, Bar Hill beat, Tel:01223 358966 Ext 3730
Contact
PC Kevin Misik online
Community Safety Unit - Cambridge 01223 358966
The police community crimefighting web site is at www.cambs-police.co.uk/camcom/
Dry Drayton Letterboxing
What is it about - and where are the Dry Drayton Letterboxes?
Post Offices
There is no Post Office in Dry Drayton. The nearest Post offices are listed below.
Bar Hill
There is a Post Office in the Library at Gladeside, Bar Hill. Opening hours are: Mon to Friday 9-5.30, Sat 9-12.30
Oakington Village Stores and Post Office
Post Office Open - Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri, 9.00-1.00, 2.00-5.30, Wed 9.00-1.00, Sat 9.00-12.30
Lovely people, very good service, good range of goods in the shop. Can be difficult to handle multiple parcels on the narrow PO counter.
Londis Stores and Post Office, Hardwick
Post Office Open - Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri, 9.00-1.00, 2.00-5.30, Wed 9.00-1.00, Sat 9.00-12.00
Again, nice people, very helpful, can be very busy on occasions - take a book or walkman with you just to be sure.
Polhill, Coton Orchard Garden Centre and Post Office
Post Office - currently operating limited service only - Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri 9.00-1.00
Not many people know the Post Office is there. Excellent service, nice people, plenty of space, you can get a coffee or shop for your garden while you are there.
Bar Hill Post Office
There is now a post office inside Bar Hill Library
Concerns about Post Offices or Postal Services?
See the Postwatch site - Postwatch represents consumers' interests in relation to postal services.
Boot Sales
The Dry Drayton area is well served with boot sales.
There are regular markets and boot sales at Oakington on Saturdays, open 7.30-1.00pm. The market is held West of the Dry Drayton to Oakington road, midway between the A14 and the village of Oakington on the Oakington Business Park. This is the market that used to be held at Oakington Airfield prior to the land being applied to the concept called Northstowe. There are lots of traders here, but private sellers are attracted when the weather is good. The market is outdoors, even when it is wet and cold. It's almost always cold here and an extra layer of clothing will make the experience better. Clothing, fruit, veg, meat, hardware, videos, DVDs, books, tools, electrical goods and bric-a-brac are usually for sale. (Organisers are Norman and Nigel Bedford 01733 222182)
On Sunday mornings throughout the year, there is a regular boot fair at the City Football Ground behind the Westbrooke Centre off Milton Road in Cambridge. It's fast and furious from 7.00am onwards and there is little of interest left when it closes at 1.00pm. Again an outdoor sale. A mix of traders and private sellers, but you will often see the same junk here on some stalls that you saw the day before at Oakington. You need to be quick and decisive here if you are to get a bargain. Regular traders with fruit and veg, short date tinned and packaged food, videos, hardware, tools and clothing. Another open air boot sale near Cambridge is held at Fulbourn on Sunday mornings in fine weather
For those interested in traveling a bit further afield, try the huge sales at Biggleswade, on the A1 to Old Warden road, on a Sunday morning during the summer - again get there early - they charge a pound admission first thing in the morning (later it is 20P), but early admission is well worth it. Well over 100 stalls here during the summer, many of them private sellers. And on the way back, try a home cooked Sunday morning breakfast at the wonderful wooden cabin restaurant at Seddington Nursery (open 10am) on the A1 northbound carriageway heading back towards St Neots. Fabulous!
Another regular, excellent large sale is held on Sunday mornings beside the A14 at Woolpit, just the other side of Bury St Edmunds. Entry there is free.
Recently regular boot sales have been introduced at Brampton Racecourse near Huntingdon. These open later, at 10.30 am on Sundays, (with an early bird charge of £1) so there is a chance to fit in a visit to another sale beforehand. On a good day there could be over 100 stalls at Brampton.
Indoor boot sales are held on some Sunday mornings at the Wood Green Animal Shelter at Godmanchester (the place with the huge wind turbine on the Papworth to Godmanchester road). Here the sellers (who seem to be mainly dealers) collect from 7am, but buyers are forced to queue outside until at least 9am, sometimes 9.10am. A large sale, very crowded and lots of bad tempered folks fed up with waiting in line outside to get in. Tel 08701 90 40 90 for dates
Other boot sales take place on an irregular basis and are advertised in the Cambridge Evening News. Boot sales at Fordham (Sundays during summer) and Fenstanton (bank holiday Mondays) are large and varied and seldom disappoint.