Wicken, Cambridgeshire

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Wicken
OS Grid Reference: TL568706
Lat/Lon: 52°18′N 0°17′W
Population: 835 (2001 Census)
Dwellings: 338 (2001 Census)
Formal status: Village
Administration
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: East Anglia
Nation: England
Post Office and Telephone
Post town: Ely
Postcode: CB7
Dialling Code: 01353 72XXXX

Wicken is a small village on the edge of the fens near Soham in East Cambridgeshire. It is the site of Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve.

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[edit] Archaeology

East Cambridgeshire is known for its great quantity of archaeological findings from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Of Wicken some Bronze Age activity is known as there are a few subsided barrows. [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hall, David [1994]. Fenland survey : an essay in landscape and persistence / David Hall and John Coles. London; English Heritage. ISBN 1-850-74477-7., p. 81-88

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