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Shire Hall is a former municipal building in Castle Hill in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. It was the headquarters of Cambridgeshire County Council from 1932 until 2021, when the council moved to New Shire Hall at Alconbury Weald , some 23 miles from Cambridge.
Shire Hall, Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council was the county council of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely in the east of England. It came into its powers on 1 April 1965 and was abolished on 1 April 1974. [ 1 ]
Cambridgeshire County Council was created in 1889 [1] and was previously based at various premises in the county town of Cambridge, notably including County Hall, Cambridge from 1914 to 1932 [2] and Shire Hall, Cambridge from 1932 to 2021. [3]
In 2021 the council vacated Shire Hall and left Cambridge, moving to New Shire Hall at Alconbury Weald in the parish of The Stukeleys, north-west of Huntingdon. [18] The first committee meeting to be held at New Shire Hall was in September 2021. [19] An official opening ceremony for New Shire Hall was held on 8 July 2022. [20]
In 2018, Cambridgeshire County Council decided to vacate its former headquarters at Shire Hall, Cambridge and move to a new building at Alconbury Weald. [9] The new building was named "New Shire Hall", with the council's first committee meeting there being held in September 2021. [10] In the 2021 Census, Alconbury Weald had a population of ...
The New Shire Hall may refer to: The New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, which replaced the Old Shire Hall, Cambridge; The New Shire Hall, Bury St Edmunds, which replaced the Old Shire Hall, Bury St Edmunds; The new Shire Hall, Shinfield Park, which replaced the Old Shire Hall, Reading
In addition, CALS also runs three local studies libraries, at Cambridge, Huntingdon and Wisbech, to hold printed and published material. In 2019 the Cambridge archive was moved from its original home in the basement of Shire Hall in Cambridge to the site of a former bowling alley at The Dock in Ely. [1]
County Hall, Cambridge, 1913–14. [16] Sawston Village College. Sawston Village College. 1930. The earliest of the Cambridgeshire village colleges, in Neo-Georgian style with the sprawling type of plan that was to be developed in the later colleges. [17] Shire Hall, Cambridge, A large Neo-Georgian building in yellow brick. 1931–2. [18]