Hardwick

Hardwick is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of Cambridgeshire, England with a large housing estate located about 6 miles west of the city of Cambridge, England. The hamlet lies immediately south of the A428 road between Cambridge and St Neots. It is about 4 miles east of the newly developed city of Cambourne. The hamlet is nearly on the Greenwich Meridian. The northern border of the hamlet is St Neots Road, now largely bypassed by the A428, with no houses or property on the north side of the road. In the 2001 census, the population was 2,630 in 946 households, increasing to 2,670 in 1,017 households at the 2011 Census.
Historically, the hamlet of Hardwick is hundreds of years old with the first recorded mention in 991 AD and an entry in the Domesday Book of 1086. Hardwick used to consist of just a few houses and farmland around St Mary's Church, on what is now the southern edge of the hamlet. There are two sites with original water pumps, one near the church and the other quite central just off Pump Lane. The hamlet's bakery was sited next to a row of houses just to the east of the pub at the end closest to the church, and the only remnant is the shell of the building which has become a garage. In its very early years, Unipalm had an office in Broadway house, indirectly linking the village to the early history of commercial internet in the UK.

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