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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.
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.
A county hall or shire hall is a common name given to a building that houses the seat of local government for a county. The location of the county hall has usually denoted the county town . In the case of Surrey , England, when county boundaries changed the county hall remained in Kingston upon Thames . [ 1 ]
[8] [9] The final committee meeting to be held at Shire Hall was on 12 March 2020. Meetings were then held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic for the rest of 2020 and first part of 2021, during which time the council vacated Shire Hall and moved to New Shire Hall, with the first committee meeting at New Shire Hall being held in September 2021.
By the late 1920s the county council had also found the Hobson Street building too small and chose to move to the shire hall at Castle Hill in 1933. [2] The building in Hobson Street continued to be used by the county council, inter alia, as the County Planning Office [ 2 ] and as the County Record Office, [ 10 ] until it was acquired by Christ ...
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 the 19th century the Shire Hall in Market Square became well established as the venue for judicial meetings and civic functions in the county. [2] Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, there was a need to find offices and a meeting place for Staffordshire County Council. [3]
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