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Re: [OM] Ship of the Fens

Subject: Re: [OM] Ship of the Fens
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:36:41 +0000
That’ll be it, Jim.  It’s a tiny site, with space for only 5 caravans.

Apparently there remain parts of the old monastery in the current house, but I 
didn’t see any remains.

Chris
> On 20 Mar 17, at 20:28, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I searched for caravan sites near Ely, and Google identified it for me, about 
> a mile south of Ely.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 3/20/2017 2:47 PM, ChrisB wrote:
>> Thanks, Jim. I can’t see Two Acres, but we stayed at Braham Farm:
>> 
>> 52.374779, 0.251706
>> 
>> Which is the site of a monastic settlement dating back over 1,000 years, it 
>> seems:
>> 
>> http://www.visitcambridge.org/dbimgs/CawdleFen.pdf 
>> <http://www.visitcambridge.org/dbimgs/CawdleFen.pdf> 
>> <http://www.visitcambridge.org/dbimgs/CawdleFen.pdf 
>> <http://www.visitcambridge.org/dbimgs/CawdleFen.pdf>>
>> 
>> I had thought, until last weekend, that drainage of the Fens started in the 
>> 1600s, but in fact it started hundreds of years before.
>> 
>> And my photos are here:
>> 
>> http://cbimages.uk <http://cbimages.uk/> <http://cbimages.uk/ 
>> <http://cbimages.uk/>>

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