- Upwell
Upwell is a village and
civil parish in the English county ofNorfolk .Upwell lies on the
A1101 road , the nearest towns beingWisbech to its north-west andDownham Market to its east. It was a place of note in British railway history as the ruraltramway , theWisbech and Upwell Tramway lasted as a freight line until 1966; although it had succumbed to bus competition for passenger traffic as early as 1927. Fact|date=March 2008Administratively, Upwell forms part of the district of
King's Lynn and West Norfolk . Until 1974 it formed part of the now-defunctWisbech Rural District .References
External links
* [http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/u/upwell/ GENUKI(tm) page]
* [http://apling.freeservers.com/Villages/Upwell54.htm Further genealogical resources]
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