Borough Fen
Borough Fen is a civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority in Cambridgeshire, England.
Borough Fen is a civil parish in the City of Peterborough unitary authority in Cambridgeshire, England. The parish is to the north of Peterborough city centre, just below the county border with Lincolnshire. Much of the land in the 19th century was owned by Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet, a strong supporter of the local boys' school. The land has predominantly been used for agriculture and cattle farming which is still a significant employment sector today.Described by John Marius Wilson in 1870 as "BOROUGH-FEN (Ville), an extra-parochial tract in Peterborough district, Northampton; 5 miles N by E of Peterborough. Acres, 3,130. Real property, £6,086. Pop., 202. Houses, 31."
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Worth seeing in and around Borough Fen
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Trinity Bridge
Trinity Bridge or the Triangular Bridge is a unique three-way stone arch bridge that stands at the heart of Crowland, Lincolnshire, England. While it once spanned the divergence of the River Welland and a distributary, the rivers have been re-routed, and it now spans nothing significant.
3.9 km · Grade I listed bridge in Lincolnshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Borough Fen
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 77 km · London Luton (LTN), 88 km · London Stansted (STN), 91 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Borough Fen72 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Borough Fen87 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £10–13
- London, Essex → Borough Fen127 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £14–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Borough Fen
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Borough Fen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Borough Fen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Borough Fen
- Crowlandtown and civil parish in South Holland, Lincolnshire, UK3.9 km
- Newboroughvillage and a civil parish in the Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire, England2.7 km
- Stowgatehamlet in Lincolnshire, England, UK3 km