Friday Bridge is a village in the civil parish of Elm, in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is 3 miles south of Wisbech. In 2021 it had a population of 1412.

History

In 1838 a Wesleyan Methodist congregation was established and a chapel in 1843. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1860 from the civil parish of Elm. St Mark's Church of England parish church, designed by J. B. Owen opened in 1865. The church is now Grade II listed. A church day school was opened in 1871. The Wisbech Water Works Co Ltd Water Tower was completed in 1894. The Friday Bridge county secondary modern school was opened in 1928. The clock tower in the village is the war memorial. Friday Bridge was the site of a World War II

prisoner of war camp A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured by a belligerent power in time of war. There are significant differences among POW camps, internment camps, and military prisons. ...

which was converted to a hostel for migrant workers in the late 1940s. The village was struck by a weak F0/T0 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.

References

{{authority control Villages in Cambridgeshire 1860 establishments in England Fenland District