Benchmark • Burwell

 

 

OS Benchmark  - St Mary's Church

16.237m

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GRID REF: TL 58984 66066

Water Pump • Burwell

 

Village water pump. Now situated on stocks green (stocks removed) but once stood at the junction of High Street and Issacson Road.

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GRID REF: TL 58918 66154

Flight Sergeant E.B.Wilcox • Burwell

Flight Sergeant Ernest Burton Wilcox

Royal Air Force (150 Squadron) 

Wireless Operator/Air Gunner

Vickers Wellington IC R1044

On 27th May 1941 orders were received for three aircraft to carry out an attack on the channel port of Boulogne. At 0130 on 28th they took off at three minute intervals from RAF Newton. 

Two of the aircraft released bombs over the target area and a third, Wilcox's Wellington, bombed an alternative target of Ostend. 

On the return to base the aircraft ran into low cloud. It was trying to ascertain it's position when it crashed into a hillside 4 miles from Leicester. The aircraft broke in two on impact and the front section caught fire. 

Five members of the crew were killed, including Flt Sgt Wilcox. One member of the crew, Rear Gunner Sgt Edmunds, escaped with only minor injuries. 

Wilcox is buried Burwell Cemetery, Cambridgeshire 

His headstone bears the inscription 

"AT THE RISING AND GOING DOWN OF THE SUN 

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"

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Maltings and Granary • Burwell

Granary and maltings to the Manor House

Grade II listed. Built in the late 18th century. One of nine that were originally in Burwell. This is sometimes referred to as Dunn's maltings, after Salisbury Dunn, a local maltser who died in 1848. The building suffered a major fire in 1990 but was fully restored. It is now converted to offices. 

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GRID REF: TL 59017 65893

 

Boundary Markers • Burwell

Boundary Markers

One in the garden of a house along Low Road and two on Swaffham Road.

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Site of Railway Station • Burwell

Site of Burwell Railway Station 

(Great Eastern Railway)

Marked by a 'blue' plaque. The site of the railway has been completely redeveloped. 

It opened in 1884 and closed to passengers in 1962. It closed completely in 1965 and was demolished in 1967. 

A more complete history can be found on the Disused Stations website (not affiliated)

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GRID REF: TL 58912 65791

 

Dovecote • Burwell

Dovecote to the Manor House

Grade II listed

19th century. Now converted to a dwelling.

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GRID REF: TL 58963 65903

 

Site of St Andrew's Church • Burwell

 

Site of St Andrew's Church.

Marked with a 'blue' plaque.

Believed to have been consecrated in the 12th century, potentially on or nearby the site of an even older building. An Anglo-Saxon cemetery was discovered some 400 metres away. 

It fell into disuse and was demolished in 1772. The white building was a girls' school which was built on the site in 1859 and closed in 1961.

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GRID REF: TL 58939 66158