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    Welney is a village and civil parish in the Fens of England and the county of Norfolk. The village is about 10 miles (16 km) south-west of the town of...
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    Ouse Washes (redirect from WWT Welney)
    Protection of Birds. The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust manages another area near Welney. The site lies between the Old Bedford River in the north-west and the New...
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    straight line for a 6-mile (10 km) stretch to the north-east of the village of Welney. This makes it an ideal location to directly measure the curvature of the...
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    to an end in December 1854 when he was dramatically beaten on Welney washes by Welney man Turkey Smart. The winter of 1854/55 was exceptionally cold...
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    Sluices. It is tidal, with reverse tidal flow being clearly visible at Welney, some 19 miles (31 km) from the sea. In the 1620s, there was discontent...
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    junctions with the River Little Ouse and the River Lark, and made its way via Welney, Upwell and Outwell, to flow into The Wash near Wisbech. At that time it...
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    Norfolk in 1981. Welney Rural District was (at least nominally) a short-lived entity created in 1894 containing the only parish, West Welney, which had been...
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    Yorkshire. Other, small, fenland populations exist at Woodwalton Fen and at Welney Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) reserve. The tansy beetle was first described...
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    Wisbech Castle Wisbech & Fenland Museum Wisbech and March Bramley Line WWT Welney Wysing Arts Centre Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), Roundhead commander in the...
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    of "Gutta Percha" See and "Turkey" Smart's wife, notched up victories at Welney, Mepal, Ely, Bluntisham, Upwell, Wormegay, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Swavesey...
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    about 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Ely and 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Welney, on the Bedford Level South section of the River Great Ouse, close to Burnt...
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    Welmore Lake Sluice. When pumping occurs, flow in the lower river above Welney is reversed, and a vertical sluice gate prevents water discharged into the...
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    meeting held in the historic old skaters public house, the Lamb and Flag in Welney in Norfolk, England, replacing the Bandy Federation of England which had...
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    hired a photographer to use a telephoto-lens camera to take a picture from Welney of a large white sheet, which she had placed the bottom edge near the surface...
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    skater and the first of a dynasty of skaters from the small village of Welney, on the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire border in the centre of the Fens, England...
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  • Moore was working at Cawoods and then March Concrete, the family lived in Welney in Norfolk. The couple retired to the Costa del Sol, Spain, but returned...
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    Doctor's Dilemma Louis Dubedat 1959 Libel Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon / Frank Welney / Number Fifteen 1960 The Angel Wore Red Arturo Carrera Song Without End...
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    August 2020. "WISBECH – DOWNHAM MKT – SWAFFHAM via Outwell & Three Hole WELNEY – DOWNHAM MARKET via Outwell, Three Holes 60,61 & 62 | DOWNHAM MARKET –...
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    comprised the whole area from Tydd Gote down to the far end of Upwell at Welney. A castle was built by William I to fortify the site. At the time of Domesday...
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    Tipps End is an English hamlet on the B1100 road between Welney and Christchurch, Cambridgeshire. It is also sometimes referred to as "Tips End". It is...
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    Weasenham St Peter, Weeting, Welborne, Wellingham, Wells-next-the-Sea, Welney, Wendling, Wereham, West Acre, West Barsham, West Beckham, West Bilney,...
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    Eastrington East Riding of Yorkshire 11 years * Note 8 Walleye (Sander vitreus) 11lb 12oz F Adams 1934 River Delph Welney Norfolk 88 years * Note 10...
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    preserving certain Fen Lands in the several Parishes of Maney, Upwell, Welney, Downham, Witcham, and in a certain extra-parochial Place in Byal Fen, within...
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    Tottenhill Upwell Walpole Walpole Cross Keys Walpole Highway Walsoken Watlington Welney Wereham West Acre West Dereham West Rudham West Walton West Winch Wiggenhall...
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    Manor and Parishes of Upwell and Outwell, and in the Parishes of Denver and Welney, in the Isle of Ely and Counties of Cambridge, and Norfolk” so far as the...
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    connect to reserves at Ouse Washes and Welney north of Earith. The Ouse Washes are managed by the RSPB and Welney is run by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust...
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    Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership - official site RSPB Ouse Washes WWT Welney SPA designation Accelerated collaboration and visiualisation to understand...
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  • Upwell, Walpole Highway, Walpole St Peter, Walpole St Andrew, Walsoken, Welney, West Walton Fenland, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, East Cambridgeshire...
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    Gloucestershire WWT Steart, Somerset WWT Washington, Tyne and Wear WWT Welney, Norfolk In 1962 the first Nene geese, a species that at that time was threatened...
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    it was extended. B1073 B1098 near Christchurch, Cambridgeshire A1101 at Welney 4.2 mi (6.8 km) B1074 St Olaves A1117 north-west of Lowestoft Originally...
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