Turves, Cambridgeshire
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Turves is a village in the
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, w ...
of
Whittlesey Whittlesey (also Whittlesea) is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland District, Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. Whittlesey is east of Peterborough. The population of the parish was 17,667 at the 2021 Census. Toponymy W ...
,
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 ...
,
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 Hertfor ...
, England. It lies east of the town of Whittlesey, south of the
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and the Twenty Foot River, and on the Ely–Peterborough line railway between Whittlesey and
March March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20 or 2 ...
, with a
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in the village. The local council describes it as "a quiet residential area on the back road between March and Whittlesey". A former pub, the Shovel and Spade, next Hardham's Drove North had closed by 1805. Another pub, the Three Horse Shoes, dates back to at least 1822 and gives its name to a nearby railway
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. There were
Quakers Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestantism, Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally ...
living in Turves by the 1670s, and the first edition of the
Ordnance Survey The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ...
map shows Quaker's Drain, on the line of the present road Quaker's Drove, south of the village. It is said that the Quaker settlement "seems to have been" on this road, where some
thatched Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge ('' Cladium mariscus''), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of ...
cottages survived into the 1930s. The
Hereward Way The Hereward Way is a long-distance footpath in England that links the Viking Way at Oakham with the Peddars Way at Knettishall Heath, near Thetford. The path takes its name from Hereward the Wake, the 11th-century rebel leader who fought ...
long-distance footpath from
Peterborough Peterborough ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The city is north of London, on the River Nene. A ...
to Ely passes through Turves, going south along March Road and Burnthouse Road and then east along Quaker's Drove.


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Best Things To Do & Days Out In Turves

Map of Turves at viamichelin.com
Villages in Cambridgeshire Whittlesey {{Cambridgeshire-geo-stub