Coldham, Cambridgeshire

Village in England

Human settlement in England

Coldham

Coldham

Location within Cambridgeshire

OS grid reference| TF434029
District|

* Fenland

Shire county|

* Cambridgeshire

Region|

* East

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| Wisbech
Postcode district| PE14
Dialling code| 01945
Police| Cambridgeshire
Fire| Cambridgeshire
Ambulance| East of England

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52°36′21″N 0°07′03″E﻿ / ﻿52.6058°N 0.1175°E﻿ / 52.6058; 0.1175

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]

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

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

## References

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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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