Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...
in the vicinity of
Ely Ely or ELY may refer to:
Places Ireland
* Éile, a medieval kingdom commonly anglicised Ely
* Ely Place, Dublin, a street
United Kingdom
* Ely, Cambridgeshire, a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England
** Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral, formal ...
and in the parish of
Little Downham
Situated in the east of Cambridgeshire, the village of Little Downham is located just north of the city of Ely. The Parish of Downham comprises Little Downham and Pymoor. It has an approximate population of 2660 with approximately 35 miles for ...
.Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network /ref> There are approximately 390 residents according to the 2011 census, although that figure probably includes the nearby settlements of Oxlode and Hundred Foot Bank.Pymoor Visit Ely It is sometimes referred to as Pymore or Pyemoor. In 1997, the earliest spelling on record was decided as the "official" spelling.
The name Pymoor means "flies over bog" and the village sign shows a dragonfly settling on a bullrush in marshland. It is on the edge of the Ouse Washes at Welches Dam by the
New Bedford River
The New Bedford River, also known as the Hundred Foot Drain because of the distance between the tops of the two embankments on either side of the river, is a navigable man-made cut-off or by-pass channel of the River Great Ouse in the Fens of C ...
, and as a result geographically a close neighbour of
Manea Manea may refer to:
* Manea, Cambridgeshire, a village in the District of Fenland, Cambridgeshire, England
* Manea (name), both a surname and a given name
* MANEA, an enzyme
* Manea River, a tributary of the Crasna River in Romania
* a singular f ...
, but many miles away by road.
The Pymoor Country and Agricultural show is an annual one day show. A Methodist chapel is the only place of worship.Pymoor Methodist The area around the village was used for filming the 2007 film '' Atonement''.