Little Thetford is a small village 3 miles (4.8 km) south of
Ely in
Cambridgeshire, England, about 76 miles (122 km) by road from London. The village is built on a
boulder clay island surrounded by flat
fenland countryside, typical of settlements in this part of the
East of England. In 1007, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman named
Ælfwaru, granted her lands in Cambridgeshire and
Norfolk, including the "land at Thetford and the fisheries around those marshes", to the
abbots of
Ely Abbey; the village was still listed as a fishery in the
Domesday Book, 79 years later. Little Thetford resisted the Parliamentary
Inclosure Acts of
William IV for seven years, which may have led to the strong
Baptist following amongst the poor of the village. About half of Little Thetford was eventually enclosed under the Parliamentary Inclosure Thetford Act of
Victoria. The
Cambridge station to
Ely station section of the
Fen Line passes through the east of the village. The rail journey from Little Thetford to London, via Ely, takes about 75 minutes. Occupying an area of 2 square miles (5 km2), and with a population of 693, Little Thetford is the smallest
civil parish in the
ward of
Stretham;
notable buildings in the village date from the 14th century. (more...)
A mid-1800s photo of a
train station with
train and coal depot, taken by Gustave Le Gray, "the most important
Frenchphotographer of the nineteenth century" because of his technical innovations in the still-new medium of
photography and his role as the teacher of other noted photographers. Two of his photographs were sold in 1999, setting world records for most expensive single photograph ever sold at auction.
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Little Thetford is a small village 3 miles (4.8 km) south of
Ely in
Cambridgeshire, England, about 76 miles (122 km) by road from London. The village is built on a
boulder clay island surrounded by flat
fenland countryside, typical of settlements in this part of the
East of England. In 1007, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman named
Ælfwaru, granted her lands in Cambridgeshire and
Norfolk, including the "land at Thetford and the fisheries around those marshes", to the
abbots of
Ely Abbey; the village was still listed as a fishery in the
Domesday Book, 79 years later. Little Thetford resisted the Parliamentary
Inclosure Acts of
William IV for seven years, which may have led to the strong
Baptist following amongst the poor of the village. About half of Little Thetford was eventually enclosed under the Parliamentary Inclosure Thetford Act of
Victoria. The
Cambridge station to
Ely station section of the
Fen Line passes through the east of the village. The rail journey from Little Thetford to London, via Ely, takes about 75 minutes. Occupying an area of 2 square miles (5 km2), and with a population of 693, Little Thetford is the smallest
civil parish in the
ward of
Stretham;
notable buildings in the village date from the 14th century. (more...)
A mid-1800s photo of a
train station with
train and coal depot, taken by Gustave Le Gray, "the most important
Frenchphotographer of the nineteenth century" because of his technical innovations in the still-new medium of
photography and his role as the teacher of other noted photographers. Two of his photographs were sold in 1999, setting world records for most expensive single photograph ever sold at auction.
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English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
3,540,949 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.