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.[1]

Coldham
Coldham is located in Cambridgeshire
Coldham
Coldham
Location within Cambridgeshire
OS grid referenceTF434029
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWisbech
Postcode districtPE14
Dialling code01945
PoliceCambridgeshire
FireCambridgeshire
AmbulanceEast of England

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.[2] This church was declared redundant in 2000 and has since been converted into a house.[3] The former war memorial from the church is now located at St Mark's, Friday Bridge.[4] 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.[5]

History

Coldham, formerly known as 'Pear Tree Hill', was formed as a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1874.[6]

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.


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