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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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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.

The parish formerly had a church dedicated to St. Ethelreda built in 1876. Mrs E.B. Tanqueray, whose husband was Bertram Tanqueray, vicar of Coldham, wrote 'The Royal Quaker', a novel about Jane Stuart publisher in 1904 by Methuen. 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. The settlement formerly had a railway station on the Great Eastern Railway, although there are proposals to reinstate a station as part of the Wisbech and March Bramley Line project.

History

Coldham, formerly known as 'Pear Tree Hill', was formed as a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1874.

References

  1. ^ Advertising feature: Wind power to the people, The Guardian online
  2. ^ "Elm". British History. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  3. ^ War Memorials.org
  4. ^ Genuki.org.uk
  5. ^ Wisbech & March Bramley Line official website
  6. ^ A.J.Gardiner (1898). History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, p392. Gardiner & Co.