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Ring's End
Ring's End is a hamlet near Guyhirn in the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England. The population is included in the civil parish of Elm in the Fenland District. History Land surrounding Elm including Coldham suffered serious flooding, with loss of human life, stock and crops ruined. As a result Elm and district became "greatly impoverished and likely to be overthrown". Attempts to improve the situation took place and the "Little Bill" of 1607 involving 6,000 acres known as "The Ring of Waldersea and Coldham" involving a system of drainage ditches forming a rough circle led to an improvement in the area. This "ring" is commemorated in the name Ring's End. Ring's End School was built in 1860 as a school and mission hall. The class rooms were on the upper floor. It was enlarged in 1894-5 and again in 1905. The school was closed in 1949. In 1889 the 'lock-up'was rented out by Wisbech council. As a consequence of a bridge being built across the river Nene and the A47 being rerou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisbech
Wisbech ( ) is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the Fenland District, Fenland district in Cambridgeshire, England. In 2011 it had a population of 31,573. The town lies in the far north-east of Cambridgeshire, bordering Norfolk and only 5 miles (8 km) south of Lincolnshire. The tidal River Nene running through the town is spanned by two road bridges. Wisbech is in the Isle of Ely (a former administrative county) and has been described as "the Capital of The Fens". Wisbech is noteworthy for its fine examples of Georgian architecture, particularly the parade of houses along the North Brink, which includes the National Trust property of Peckover House and Garden, Peckover House and the The Crescent, Wisbech, Crescent, part of a crescent (architecture), circus surrounding Wisbech Castle. History Toponymy The place name "Wisbech" is first attested in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' for the year 656, where it appears as ''Wisbeach''. It is recorded in the 1086 Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coldham, Cambridgeshire
Coldham is a hamlet in Elm civil parish, part of the Fenland district of the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Coldham is the site of a wind farm on a large farm estate of the Cooperative Group near the settlement. Church Coldham, formerly known as "Pear Tree Hill", was formed as a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1874. The parish formerly had a church dedicated to St. Ethelreda built in 1876. This church was declared redundant in 2000 and has since been converted into a house. The former war memorial from the church is now located at St Mark's, Friday Bridge. Railway station The settlement formerly had a railway station on the Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ..., although there are proposals to reinstate a station as part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring's End Local Nature Reserve
Ring's End is an 11 hectare Local Nature Reserve which runs south from the hamlet of Ring's End towards March in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. It is owned by Cambridgeshire County Council, and managed by the Friends of Ring's End Nature Reserve Group. Ring's End is known as a 'post-industrial habitat' since it is reclaimed industrial land. This is a linear site along a disused railway embankment, with views over the Fens A fen is a type of wetland. Fen, Fenn, Fens, Fenns, may also refer to: People * Fen (name), a Chinese given name and surname * Fen Cresswell (1915–1966), New Zealand cricketer * Fen McDonald (1891–1915), Australian rules footballer * Ke .... There are also three ponds, reedbeds and areas of scrub. The soil is poor in nutrients, which has allowed uncommon flowering plants such as coltsfoot to become established. Trees include ash and white willow. The southern end of the site can be accessed from Twenty Foot Road, and National Cycle Route 63 ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Places In Cambridgeshire
This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It includes places in the former county of Huntingdonshire, now a district of Cambridgeshire. A * Abbotsley * Abbots Ripton * Abington Pigotts * Alconbury * Alconbury Weston * Aldreth * Alwalton * America * Arrington * Ashley B *Babraham * Balsham * Barham * Bar Hill * Barnwell * Barrington * Bartlow * Barton * Barway * Bassingbourn * Benwick * Blackhorse Drove * Bluntisham * Bottisham * Bourn * Boxworth *Brampton * Brington * Broughton * Brinkley * Buckden * Buckworth * Burrough Green * Burwell * Bury * Bythorn C * Caldecote (Huntingdonshire) * Caldecote (South Cambridgeshire) * Cambourne *Cambridge * Camps End * Cardinal's Green * Carlton * Castle Camps * Catworth * Caxton * Chatteris * Cherry Hinton *Chesterton, Cambridge * Chesterton, Huntingdonshire * Chettisham * Cheveley * Childerley *Chippenham * Chittering *Christchurch * Coates * Coldham * Collett's Bridge * Colne * Conington * Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guyhirne Railway Station
Guyhirne railway station was a station at Ring's End, near Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway between Spalding and March. It was opened originally by the GNR in 1867. An auction took place in 1867 of items linked to the construction of the railway. It was closed to passengers by the British Transport Commission The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the s ..., due to low usage, in 1953. Goods traffic continued at the station until 1964, whilst the line passing through it remained open until November 1982. Brooksbank, Ben; ''Geograph. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A47 Road
The A47 is a major trunk road in England linking Birmingham to Lowestoft, Suffolk, maintained and operated by National Highways. Most of the section between Birmingham and Nuneaton is now classified as the B4114 road, B4114. From Peterborough eastwards, it is a trunk road (sections west of the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road have been downgraded as alternative roads have been built). History The original (1923) route of the A47 was Birmingham to Great Yarmouth, but there were some changes made to its route in the early years. At its eastern end, the A47 originally ran through Filby and Caister-on-Sea, with the Acle Straight bearing the number B1140. A change took place in 1925. The original route of the A47 between Guyhirn and Wisbech in the Isle of Ely was via Wisbech St Mary, with the direct route being part of the A141. This is because there was no road bridge over the River Nene at Guyhirn, and hence no junction between the A47 and the A141. In April 1925 a steel road b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Nene
The River Nene ( or ) flows through the counties of Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk in Eastern England from its sources in Arbury Hill in Northamptonshire. Flowing Northeast through East England to its mouth at Lutton, Lincolnshire, Lutton Marsh into The Wash in the North Sea, the Nene and its tributaries drain an area of about , with a population of 750,000. The Nene's main tributaries include the River Ise, Wootton Brook, Willow Brook (River Nene), Willow Brook, and Harper's Brook. At long, it is the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, tenth-longest in the United Kingdom, and is tidal for up to Dog-in-a-Doublet sluice, near Peterborough. The river forms the boundary between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, and is navigable for , from Northampton to The Wash. Etymology Spelling of the river's name has altered over time; it was called the "Nenn" or "Nyn" in an 1810 engraving by Drafter, draughtsmen George Cole and John Roper, while the Ordnance Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive website provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011. History The British Library's Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London until 2013, and is now divided between the St Pancras and Boston Spa sites. The library has an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801. In total, the collection consists of 660,000 bound volumes and 370,000 reels of microfilm containing tens of millions of newspapers with 52,000 titles on 45 km of shelves. After the closure of Colindale in November 2013, access to the 750 million original printed pages was maintained via an automated and climate-controlled storage fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenland District
Fenland is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. It was historically part of the Isle of Ely. The district covers around of mostly agricultural land in the extremely flat The Fens, Fens. The council is based in Fenland Hall, in March, Cambridgeshire, March. Other towns include Chatteris, Whittlesey and Wisbech, the largest of the four. Since 2017 the district has been a constituent member of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, led by the directly-elected Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The neighbouring districts are East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, City of Peterborough, Peterborough, South Holland, Lincolnshire, South Holland and King's Lynn and West Norfolk. History The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. The new district covered the area of six former districts, which were all abolished at the same time: *Chatteris Urban district (England and Wales), Urban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, Northamptonshire to the west, and Bedfordshire to the south-west. The largest settlement is the city of Peterborough, and the city of Cambridge is the county town. The county has an area of and had an estimated population of 906,814 in 2022. Peterborough, in the north-west, and Cambridge, in the south, are by far the largest settlements. The remainder of the county is rural, and contains the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, Ely in the east, Wisbech in the north-east, and St Neots and Huntingdon in the west. For Local government in England, local government purposes Cambridgeshire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with five Districts of England, districts, and the Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elm, Cambridgeshire
Elm is a village and civil parish in the Fenland District of Cambridgeshire, England. In Domesday, it is called Helle. The village is about 1 miles or 2 km south of the market town of Wisbech, immediately to the south of the Wisbech by-pass. The county boundary with Norfolk is immediately to the north and north-east. The northern part of Elm village, at Elm Low Road, acts as a suburb of Wisbech. Most of the village straddles the B1101 road, which meanders its way between Wisbech and March, Cambridgeshire, March. The civil parish had a resident population of 3,295, as recorded during the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 United Kingdom census. The population including Coldham, Cambridgeshire, Coldham, Collett's Bridge, Friday Bridge, Cambridgeshire, Friday Bridge and Ring's End was 3,962 at the 2011 Census. History Prehistoric Situated in the Fens, much of the parish would have been undrained salt marsh and salt lagoon, with any higher areas, such as that around Wisbech, forming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular and religious administration in most of England and Wales. Civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. Civil parishes in their modern form came into being through the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which established elected parish councils to take on the secular functions of the parish vestry. A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely populated rural area with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, to a large town with a population in excess of 100,000. This scope is similar to that of municipalities in continental Europe, such as the communes of France. However, unlike their continental Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
