Bar Hill is a purpose-built village with a population of 4,000 about 4 miles (7 km) northwest of Cambridge, England on the A14 road.

Planning for the village began in the late 1950s to alleviate the housing shortage in South Cambridgeshire, and the first residents arrived in 1967. The village has a shopping mall (with a large Tesco Extra supermarket as anchor store), library (in which, unusually, a post office is also located), primary school, multi-denominational church and a pub called The Fox. A skate park has been built in the village.

The village has a cycle path to Dry Drayton, known as The Drift.

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See also

• Cambourne, another, later, planned village in South Cambridgeshire