Icknield Way Path, 110-mile route from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Knettishall Heath in Suffolk. The Icknield Way Trail, a route used by walkers, horse riders and off-road cyclists, also passes through the village. The author Graham Greene's wife once owned The Queens House in Linton. His wife Vivien bought the house in 1947 but sold the house in 1948. The house is on High Street, opposite The Crown public house, one of three public houses in the village. There is a trading estate at The Grip. Education There are four schools in Linton. Linton CE Infant School is a school in the middle of the village, adjacent to St Mary's church, teaching children aged 4 to 7. At the end of the village facing Balsham, on Wheatsheaf Way, is Linton Heights Junior School, a primary school which teaches children from ages 7 to 11. Linton Village College is on the A1307, the main Haverhill-to-Cambridge road, and teaches children aged 11 to 16, including those from surrounding villages. The Granta School, located next to Linton Village Collage, is one of Cambridgeshire's six area special schools, where pupils with special educational needs from the ages of 3 to 19 are taught. Popular culture Fictional character Alan Partridge stayed at the also fictional Linton Travel Tavern in I'm Alan Partridge, claiming that Linton is equidistant between London and Norwich. Linton is near the halfway point of the London-to-Norwich A11 trunk road, although some four miles from the actual road. The actual location used for the BBC television series was the Hilton Hotel on the A41 near Bushey in south Hertfordshire. See also Linton railway station, a disused station that once served the village List of places in Cambridgeshire The Hundred Parishes External links Linton village web site 2001 Census Linton Zoo References Villages in Cambridgeshire Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire South Cambridgeshire District