Coldham, Cambridgeshire

Shire countyRegionCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townWisbechPostcode districtPE14Dialling code01945PoliceCambridgeshireFireCambridgeshireAmbulanceEast of England 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

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

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