Burwell, Cambridgeshire

For other places named Burwell, see Burwell.

Coordinates: 52°16′30″N 0°19′37″E / 52.275°N 0.327°E / 52.275; 0.327

Burwell
St. Mary's Church in Burwell, a Grade I listed building dating from the 12th century.
Burwell  Burwell shown within Cambridgeshire
Area	24.7 km2 (9.5 sq mi) [1]
Population	6,150 (2008 est.)[2]
- Density	249 /km2 (640 /sq mi)
OS grid reference	TL589665
- London	56.6 mi (91.1 km)  SSW
Parish	Burwell
District	East Cambridgeshire
Shire county	Cambridgeshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Cambridge
Postcode district	CB25
Dialling code	01638
Police	Cambridgeshire
Fire	Cambridgeshire
Ambulance	East of England
EU Parliament	East of England
UK Parliament	SE Cambridgeshire
Website	Parish Council
List of places: UK • England • Cambridgeshire

Burwell /ˈbɝːwɛl/ is a large^[3] fen-edge village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, about 10 miles (16 km) north east of Cambridge. It is situated on the south-eastern edge of The Fens, a large area of relatively flat former marshland which lies close to sea level and covers the majority of Cambridgeshire and neighbouring Lincolnshire. The fens to the west of the village are drained with the help of the man-made Cambridgeshire Lode waterways, including Burwell Lode which has been important in the growth of the village.

History

Etymology

The name "Burwell" is of Anglo-Saxon origin and refers to a fort (burh-) located close to a spring (-well).^[4] The first record of the name in the area dates from 1060^[5] and the village is recorded in the Domesday Book under the spellings Burewelle, Burwella and Burwelle.^[6] A spring is situated in the south of the village close to the remains of 12th century Burwell Castle,^[4] although there is evidence of prior settlement on or near the castle site.^[7]

Old maps sometimes label the village as the plural "Burwells",^[8][9] which refer to either Burwell St Mary^[10][11] and Burwell St Andrew^[12] parishes or the split between the High Town around the churches in the south of the village and the newer North Street and Newnham parts of the village which were separated by a causeway.^[4]

Early settlement

There is evidence of human activity in the vicinity of Burwell since prehistory. Flint tools including axes dating from the Palaeolithic^[13] and Mesolithic^[14] have been found on the west side of the village. Further burned and worked flint has been found close to the spring dating from the late Neolithic^[15] but the majority of activity in the area at the time seemed to be on the actual Fen to the west of the village, where the discovery of a large number of flint and stone tools on a raised piece of ground suggests that there was already settlement in the parish before the onset of the Bronze Age.^[16] During the Neolithic, peat had begun to form on the fens around the village which has partly buried prehistoric sites.^[5]

Activity on the fen continued into the Bronze Age,^[17][18] as did activity close to the spring^[19] but they were joined by increasing activity on the heath in the south of the parish, where barrows are known to have existed.^[20] The southern part of the parish is also the highest ground within it, and is close to the ancient Icknield Way.^[21]

As Burwell entered the Iron Age, activity on the fens to the west of the village appears to have diminished as conditions became more marshy. However, ditch systems and enclosures were found during excavations in 1969 and 1995 in the west of the parish.^[22] Activity in proximity to the spring continued with evidence discovered for a burial in a nearby ditch^[15] and a settlement was uncovered in 2005 on the eastern edge of the village.^[23]

Settlement close to the spring continued after Roman colonisation of Britain, as evidence for a Roman settlement has been found 500 yards north of St Mary's Church.^[24] Various Roman archeology has been found around the village, including pottery,^[25] a hoard of vessels and bowls,^[26] a lead vat,^[27] and coins possibly relating to a villa on Ness Road, north of the village.^[28] Evidence for another villa in the same area comes from roof tiles dating from the 2nd century^[29] although the findings around the village cover the 2nd – 4th centuries. Reach Lode on the north-west edge of the parish is likely to be of Roman construction,^[30] as was the original Burwell Lode which has since been replaced^[31]

Early history

The village is located at the head of Burwell Lode, a man-made waterway which connects it with the River Cam. The present course, created in the mid 17th century, replaced an older route which was probably Roman in origin.^[32] The lode splits into two at the village, and each branch served a series of basins, warehouses and wharves, which were located at the bottom of long strips of land, with the merchants' houses at the other end of them.^[33]

The village and the lode became more important with the opening in the 1850s of the Burwell Chemical Works, owned by T. T. Ball. By the 1890s, it had become the Patent Manure Works, was owned by Colchester and Ball, and around 10,000 tons of goods each year were shipped along the lode, using three steam tugs and a large fleet of lighters. Prentice Brothers Ltd built barges in the village until 1920, and continued repairing them there after they bought the fertilizer factory in 1921. The factory was later owned by Fisons, and boats continued to be used to move the fertiliser to Fenland farms until 1948. Commercial use of the lode ceased in 1963, when the traffic in sugarbeet stopped.^[32]

Burwell Castle

The village is the site of an unfinished castle, situated in Spring Close.^{[nb 1]} The final wall was knocked down by the Fire Brigade testing a fire hose in the 1930s, but the dry moat is still clearly visible. The castle was built during "The Anarchy", the internal conflict of the mid 12th century in the reign of King Stephen. Although a settlement had been reached such that the throne would pass to Henry II on Stephen's death, the Barons of the time took the opportunity to fight their own battles.

Among these Geoffrey de Mandeville was particularly troublesome and, after turning against Stephen, had set up an impregnable base around Ely. From his base he would attack local towns, such as Cambridge, and so the king ordered castles be built to surround Geoffrey. The few sites at which it is known such castles were to be constructed include Rampton (Giant's Hill), Ramsey (Booth's Hill) and Burwell.

At Burwell, a moat had been constructed and the stone keep partially built when Geoffrey attacked and was mortally wounded. His revolt thus collapsed and the castle was left unfinished. The narrow lane running along the side of the church next to Spring Close, where the Castle is located, is named "Mandeville".

The Barn Fire on Cuckolds Row

On the 8 September 1727, a puppet show visited Burwell and put on a show, held in a barn on what is now Cuckolds Row, near the centre of the village. After the barn had filled with an audience from Burwell and surrounding villages, the doors were nailed shut to prevent further people getting in, a simple act which was key to the tragedy which resulted.

One person who could not get into the barn sat with a candle lantern and peered in to watch the show. However, the person accidentally knocked the lantern into the barn, setting fire to the hay within. With no way to escape, 78 people (51 of them, children) perished in the ensuing blaze.

The deceased are buried in the churchyard of St. Marys parish church, at the opposite end of the High Street, with a gravestone engraved with a blazing heart with angels' wings. On 8 September 2005, a plaque was unveiled at the site of the barn in memorial of the fire.^[34]

Governance

Burwell is a parish and thus has a parish council to deal with matters within the village. These include the maintenance and provision of both village halls, the recreation ground, playgrounds, and allotments. The Parish Council convenes at the Jubilee Reading Room on The Causeway.^[35]

Burwell parish falls within Burwell ward and provides three councillors^[36] to the local East Cambridgeshire District Council which convenes at The Grange in Ely. A larger Burwell electoral division also provides one councillor^[37] to Cambridgeshire County Council which convenes at Shire Hall in Cambridge.

Francis Pym, local MP 1961–1987

The village falls within the South East Cambridgeshire constituency, which has been a Conservative stronghold since formation in 1983. James Paice became the local MP in 1987 and held his seat at the 2010 general election. His predecessor as local MP, Francis Pym, served as Foreign Secretary between the Falklands War and the 1983 general election and lived in the village.^[38]

Cambridgeshire falls entirely within the East of England constituency for European Parliament elections, which elects seven MEP's.^[39]

Local government boundaries have varied somewhat over the years. At a parish level, the boundary followed Devil's Dyke through the neighbouring village of Reach bisecting it until it was formed into a new parish in 1961.^[4] The other boundaries of the parish have also changed slightly several times over the years, most obviously on the south-eastern edge, where part of the Parish including part of Newmarket Racecourse^[40] was lost to Newmarket when the boundary was adjusted to follow the A14 bypass in 1993.^[41] The boundaries with Newmarket and Exning parishes are also the boundary between the county of Cambridgeshire and neighbouring Suffolk.

As with the rest of England, a system of Hundreds used to cover Cambridgeshire until the 19th century. Burwell covered the south-western edge of the Staploe Hundred, which also included the nearby parishes of Chippenham, Fordham, Isleham, Kennett, Landwade, Snailwell, Soham and Wicken.

East Cambridgeshire District Council only came into being in 1974 with the Local Government Act 1972. Before the reorganisation, Burwell fell inside the Newmarket Rural District which had existed since 1894. Between 1875 and 1894, this was part of a larger Newmarket Rural Sanitary District which also encompassed the Moulton Rural District in neighbouring West Suffolk.

The boundaries of Cambridgeshire itself have also changed somewhat over the years, with the current county only coming into effect in 1974, in the same 1972 Act which created East Cambridgeshire district. Before Huntingdon and Peterborough joined the county in 1974, Burwell fell within Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely which covered the southern and eastern parts of the modern county. Between 1888 and 1965, the village also fell within a smaller administrative county of Cambridgeshire, covering only the southern part of the modern county.

Geography

Climate

Climate data for Cambridge
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	7.0 (44.6)	7.4 (45.3)	10.2 (50.4)	12.6 (54.7)	16.5 (61.7)	19.4 (66.9)	22.2 (72.0)	22.3 (72.1)	18.9 (66.0)	14.6 (58.3)	9.9 (49.8)	7.8 (46.0)	14.1
Average low °C (°F)	1.3 (34.3)	1.1 (34.0)	2.9 (37.2)	4.0 (39.2)	6.7 (44.1)	9.8 (49.6)	12.0 (53.6)	11.9 (53.4)	10.1 (50.2)	7.1 (44.8)	3.7 (38.7)	2.3 (36.1)	6.1
Rainfall mm (inches)	45.0 (1.772)	32.7 (1.287)	41.5 (1.634)	43.1 (1.697)	44.5 (1.752)	53.8 (2.118)	38.2 (1.504)	48.8 (1.921)	51.0 (2.008)	53.8 (2.118)	51.1 (2.012)	50.0 (1.969)	553.5 (21.791)
Source: Met Office

Clunch quarry

Up until the early 20th century the building material clunch was dug in Burwell. Remains of the open quarry can be seen either side of Bloomsfield. Clunch was used to build many of the houses in Burwell and remains the name of the local parish magazine.

Priory Wood

Burwell has a small area of woodland. Planted in 1998 as a community project to commemorate the coming millennium, it is owned and maintained by the Woodland Trust. The official name comes from an ancient priory which stood nearby also giving its name to some of the local roads, such as Priory Close and Abbey Close.^[42]

Demography

Historical population of Burwell[nb 2]
Year	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901
Population	1,250	1,324	1,518	1,668	1,820	2,187	1,987	2,106	1,949	1,998	1,974
Year	1911	1921	1931	1941	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
Population	2,144	2,108	2,257	[nb 3]	2,364	2,734	4,032	4,257	4,531	5,833	–
Census: 1801–2001[43]

Culture and Community

Carnival

The village hosts an annual carnival in June which raises money for charity. A parade travels from St Margaret's Field in the south of the village to Burwell Village College (Primary)'s school field, where stalls and fairground rides are present.^[44]

Twinning

The village is twinned with two villages: Lizy-sur-Ourcq and Mary-sur-Marne and one small town: Ocquerre. These are all situated in France, but only Lizy is mentioned on the signs as you enter the village. Visits from Burwell to the twinned villages are organised by the Burwell Village Twinning Association. A plate commemorating the twinning is located on a wall on the outside of the Year 3 classroom at the village primary school: Burwell Village College (Primary) which educates local 4–11 year olds. The village falls into the catchment areas of both Bottisham and Soham Village Colleges, which provide education at secondary school level (11–16 yrs).

Transport

Burwell Station in 1963. Closed to passengers in 1962, goods in 1965.

Road access to Burwell is primarily through the B1102 Cambridge to Mildenhall road which runs the length of the village, and from the B1103 which links the village with Newmarket. The A14 passes along the southernmost edge of Burwell parish on the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk border, but cannot be accessed without leaving the parish.

Public transport is provided by way of Stagecoach in Cambridge bus route 10 running through the village between Cambridge and Newmarket.^[45] Stagecoach took over what used to be Cambus in the mid-90's, Cambus itself had only split from the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company in 1984. Eastern Counties had absorbed Burwell and District in 1979, the local bus company having provided transport to nearby Cambridge, Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds as well as further afield destinations such as Great Yarmouth and Felixstowe.^[46][47]

Between 1884 and 1965, Burwell had a railway station in the south of the village on the Cambridge to Mildenhall railway. The station closed to passengers in 1962, and although nothing of the station remains, its presence is still acknowledged in the names of the streets Railway Close and Station Gate on the site of the former station. There was also a halt on Newmarket Road to the south-east of the village. The B1103 still goes over a railway bridge on the site.^[48]

To the north of the village, temporary tramways provided access from the nearby Ipswich to Ely Line to the local brickworks, situated near the lode.^[49]

Burwell Lode is navigable up to the edge of the village at Anchor Lane. The Lode joins Reach Lode in the north-west corner of the parish before they confluence with the River Cam at Upware, 5 miles from Burwell.^[50][51]

Education

Burwell contains a nursery,^[52] a Montessori^[53] and a playgroup^[54] for pre-school age children.

Children attend Burwell Village College (Primary) up until the age of 11 and then go to the secondary schools of either Soham or Bottisham.

Burwell Museum

Rural history museum depicting life through the centuries on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens. Opened in 1992, it is housed in a collection of interesting buildings, some are reconstructed from other sites (such as the 18th century timber framed barn) and others are built in the local style using mainly reclaimed materials (such as the wagon sheds/granary display area). The neighbouring Grade II* listed windmill, Stevens' Mill, is also part of the Museum and can be visited when the Museum is open.^[55]

Religious Sites

St Mary's Church, Burwell

Church of England

Burwell has a large parish church located on the High Street in the south of the village. Dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, the church is of a Perpendicular Gothic style in construction, and dates back to the 15th century, although some parts of the building are older.^[56] There is a regular congregation of around 50 to 70 people attending Sunday morning services. The current vicar as is Revd Dr Eleanor Williams, who took over from Revd Stephen Earl in April 2011.

Baptist Church

As well as the parish church, at the northern end of the village, Burwell has Baptist Church. It is similar in congregation size to St Mary's, and has a membership of around 50. The current Minister from January 2000 is Revd Kevin Burdett.

Trinity Church

Located near to St Mary's, Trinity is a small church founded by the merger of the Methodist and United Reformed churches in 1988. It has a regular congregation size of around 20.

Others

The nearest Roman Catholic church is Our Lady and St Etheldreda in neighbouring Newmarket. In addition, the village has a number of former churches converted for residential or commercial use. Burwell also has a large cemetery located on Ness Road, with a small chapel located on the site.

Sport

Burwell Swifts F.C. play football in Division 2B of the BIS Cambridgeshire Football League, with a reserve team in Division 4B and a third "A" team in 5C. There are also two youth football clubs; the Burwell Swallows^[57] and Burwell Tigers.^[58]

Burwell Cricket Club^[59] is based on Tan House Lane, with a 1st XI in the East Anglian Premier League.

Media

The village of Burwell is served by a variety of different media sources. The community magazine Clunch^[60] and the fortnightly newspaper Burwell Bulletin^[61] deal with news on a village level. The village is also within the catchment area of the Cambridge News and Newmarket Journal^[62] newspapers, as well as radio stations BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Heart Cambridgeshire. For regional television, Burwell is in the BBC East and ITV Anglia regions.

See also

• HMS Burwell (H94)

References

Notes

1. ^ grid reference TL587661
2. ^ Figures up to and including 1951 include the part of Reach formerly in Burwell parish
3. ^ No census 1941 due to World War II

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51. ^ UK Statute Law Database: SCHEDULE 1 TO THE ANGLIAN WATER AUTHORITY ACT 1977 PART 3: 5. (l) applies to Burwell Lode and refers to a navigation authority which is responsible for keeping the Lode navigable.
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External links

• burwell.co.uk
• burwell-bulletin.co.uk
• Burwell Village College (Primary)
• Burwell Museum
• Burwell Village Twinning Association
• St Mary's Church website
• Cambridgeshire Churches: St Mary's, Burwell