Many links!
We do not vouch for the accuracy of any of the sites listed below. Please let us know about any broken links, or about other sites we should be referencing.
Local Democracy
Parish Councils
Great Gransden Parish Council
www.greatgransdenpc.org.uk or ggpc.gransdens.org
(both links point to the same place)The Great Gransden Reading room has its own website: https://www.gransdenreadingroom.org/
Little Gransden Parish Council
www.littlegransden.org or lgpc.gransdens.org
(both links point to the same place)
District Councils
Great Gransden is part of Huntingdonshire District, huntingdonshire.gov.uk
Planning portal:
Rubbish collection calendar:
What goes in which bin?
Little Gransden is part of South Cambridgeshire District, scambs.gov.uk
Find or view planning applications:
Rubbish collections:
What goes in which bin?
County Council
Both Huntingdonshire District and South Cambs District are part of the county of Cambridgeshire, www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk. CCC is our local Transport Authority, and here are some shortcuts to the services it offers:
to report a highway problem in Cambridgeshire, including potholes:
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/travel-roads-and-parking/roads-and-pathways/roadworks-and-faults/
Note: trunk roads and motorways in England are maintained by National Highways rather than the local county, for these you will need to use a different portal – https://report.nationalhighways.co.uk/ – or (preferably) phone their Customer Contact Centre on 0300 123 5000.
In an emergency, don’t use the web: call 999 instead.Roadwork and traffic information
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/travel-roads-and-parking/roads-and-pathways/roadworks-and-faults/roadwork-and-traffic-information/
Police
Cambridgeshire Constabulary: cambs.police.uk
Police & Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire:www.cambridgeshire-pcc.gov.uk
If you prefer to contact the police online about a non-urgent matter, Cambridgeshire Constabulary let you Report a crime online, Report a concern, or Report a vehicle collision. If you want to report something anonymously you can report it via the Crimestoppers website or via their hotline on: 0800 555 111.
Flood line
To find out about current flood warnings and alerts, visit https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk, which has a live map allowing you to zoom in on our area.
Health
All links below open in separate windows (or separate tabs, depending on your browser settings). We do not vouch for the accuracy of any of these sites. Please let us know about any broken links, or about other sites we should be referencing.
Bourn Surgery - www.bournsurgery.nhs.uk
25 Alms Hill, Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2SH; 01954 719313
Greensands Medical Practice - www.greensands.org.uk
Gamlingay surgery:
Stocks Lane, Gamlingay, Bedfordshire, SG19 3JR; 01767 651544
Addenbrooke's Hospital - www.cuh.nhs.uk/addenbrookes-hospital
Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ; 01223 245151
Hinchingbrooke Hospital - www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk/our-hospitals/hinchingbrooke-hospital
Hinchingbrooke Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 6NT; 01480 416416
Papworth Hospital - www.royalpapworth.nhs.uk
Papworth Road, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0A; 01223 638000
the postcode is still being updated on certain sat navs / map apps. Please use CB2 0QQ as an alternative.
Education, Religion, local magazines
Buzzi Bodies Baby and Toddler Group don't have a website, but are on Facebook.
some local secondary schools: Bassingbourn Village College Cambourne Village College Comberton Village College Ernulf Academy Gamlingay Village College Longsands Academy St Bedes Inter-Church Secondary School Swavesey Village College
some local U3As: Cambourne & District, St Neots, Royston
Cambridge U3AC has left the U3A movement, and gone independent
Great & Little Gransden Churches are part of the Bluebell Benefice, which has a separate Bluebell-19 site for support during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Lighthouse Cafe and Arts Centre at the Baptist Cafe, Great Gransden
'Roundabout', the pastoral magazine for the Gransdens, Waresley and Abbotsley is delivered monthly to each household in the villages - and as from Jun 2019, it is now on the web, with the address roundabout.gransdens.org
There is another magazine, The Villager, covering a wider area including Potton and Biggleswade; it is delivered to most but not all the houses in the villages.
Online Forums
There is an online discussion group called Touchbase for the residents of the Gransdens and neighbouring villages; at present, it can only be viewed by those who have been registered as members of the group. To join, email your request to touchbase+owners@googlegroups.com, and say where you live. Only residents of Abbotsley, Waresley or one of the Gransdens can join, though for historic reasons some existing members live outside this region. Group members will normally receive an email for every post, but you can opt to receive regular summaries instead - daily or weekly, say.
There is also the Gransden Forum; like Touchbase, you have to register to view the site, and it is open to those in the same four villages. Posts are categorised, and you can be selective about the categories in which you are interested.
Groups and Organisations* in and around The Gransdens
(*those we know about, that have websites!)
Info for local residents (including their complaint procedure)
There are various local organisations without their own web presence: contact details for some of those were included in the village directory that was on the Great Gransden Parish council website. The directory was removed as is now well out of out of date, but an update is currently (as of August 2021) being produced by the Bluebell Benefice. The Little Gransden village site has information about the Carpet Bowls club.
Village Diary
There is a diary in the Great Gransden village shop, that can be used by event organisers etc to minimise clashes! Please remember to consult it before scheduling an event, and then put an entry in the diary for your date. There is also a diary on Facebook - contact .
Village History
Little Gransden Time Travel -
sites.google.com/site/littlegransdentimetravel
A website that aims to deliver a history of Little Gransden, viewed primarily through its people and buildings.
BHO - British History Online
A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1932. Pages 296-302 cover Great Gransden
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1926. see pages 118-123 for Great Gransden
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire, Volume 1, West Cambridgshire. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1968. Pages 167-170 cover Little Gransden
A vision of Britain, http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk, has entries for both Little Gransden and 'Great Gaddensden'
The Gransdens in Wikipedia
Wikipedia has entries for both Great Gransden and Little Gransden., which contain links to the entries for the districts and the county. There are also entries for various past residents of the villages, including
John Courtail, James Plumptre, Barnabas Oley, Arthur Tozer Russell, Anne Dutton, David Wilcox, Andrew Willet, all at one time Gransden-based clergy (or writers on religion)
George Abecassis, Lady Mary Grosvenor, Reg Parnell, winners of races held at Gransden Lodge airfield
Queen Maria of Yugoslavia and A Wallis Mills, previous owners of the Mill House.
Physcomitrella patens, Liopleurodon Pachydeirus and Cryptosaurus, the first two being residents of Gransden wood and the last of Great Gransden Brick Pit. (The Wikipedia article on Liopleurodon does not mention Gransden; for that, see plesiosauria.com/genera/liopleurodon/liopleurodon-pachydeirus/)
Let us know of any others! There are also entries for
Other useful/interesting links
courtesy of the BBC
BritishListedBuildings.co.uk has entries for Great Gransden and Little Gransden.
ancientmonuments.uk has an entry for the Gransden Mill.
There is a website about the Gransden Mill