- Wicken, Cambridgeshire
Infobox UK place
official_name = Wicken
os_grid_reference = TL568706
latitude = 52.3111237544937
longitude = 0.298675666473629
population = 835 (2001 Census)
shire_county =Cambridgeshire
region = East of England
country = England
post_town = ELY
postcode_district = CB7
dialcode = 01353Wicken is a small village on the edge of the fens near
Soham inEast Cambridgeshire . It is the site ofWicken Fen National Nature Reserve .Archaeology
East Cambridgeshire is known for its great quantity of archaeological findings from theStone Age , theBronze Age and theIron Age . Of Wicken some Bronze Age activity is known as there are a few subsided barrows. [cite book|title= Fenland survey : an essay in landscape and persistence / David Hall and John Coles |first=David|last=Hall|origdate=1994|publisher=London; English Heritage|id=ISBN 1-85074-477-7 , p. 81-88]The church
The church is dedicated to
Saint Lawrence and is situated at the eastern end of the village. The newer centre of the village is now some distance away. The church has anave with three bays, a north and southaisle , a tower that contains five bells, achancel , a south porch and a largevestry on the north side of the tower. Interred under the altar areHenry Cromwell , fourth son ofOliver Cromwell along with his wife and some of their children.The village today
In the
village today there is a pub, The Maids Head, but there once were two more. The village faces the larger settlement ofSoham across a flat expanse of agricultural land, once flooded, and still called SohamMere . The population was 699 in 1991 but now there are many new houses so that figure will be different.References
ee also
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List of places in Cambridgeshire
*Spinney Abbey
*East Cambridgeshire
*Wicken Fen External links
* [http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/B8E68408-2605-4D59-BB4D-47991FE40343/0/Wicken.pdf 2001 Census]
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