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Parson Drove

Parson Drove is a fen village and civil parish in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. A linear settlement, it is 6 miles (10 km) west of Wisbech, the nearest town. The village is named after the central thoroughfare along which the village developed, a green drove, much wider than the current metalled road (B1166). The population at the 2001 Census was 1,030. The city of Peterborough is 19 miles (31 km) to the west, and the town of King's Lynn is 21 miles (34 km) to the east.

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Monday 5 October

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🌿 Nature reserve

Ouse Washes (Norfolk)

Welney · 14 miles

Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve, SSSI/SAC/Ramsar/Environment Agency flood area/Internal Drainage Board,/Landscape Partnership & Historic landscape. Some have unclear or divergent borders. Atempts to plot all separately would be otiose and futile. See note.

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📸 Landmark

John Clare's grave

Helpston · 16 miles

The children of John Clare Primary School annually place 'midsummer cushions' around the grave. These are a Northamptonshire tradition recorded by Clare: a rectangle of greensward with summer flowers pushed into it.

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🗿 Monument

COVID-19 Rock Snake

Watlington · 16 miles

Rocks painted & inscribed during the COVID-19 outbreak that had appeared as a "rock snake" on the green spontaneously, made into a permanent monument.

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🌿 Nature reserve

Ouse Washes (Hundred Foot Washes)

Oxlode · 16 miles

Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve, SSSI/SAC/Ramsar/Environment Agency flood area/Internal Drainage Board,/Landscape Partnership & Historic landscape. Some have unclear or divergent borders. Atempts to plot all separately would be otiose and futile. See note.

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🗿 Monument

Whale

King's Lynn · 17 miles

Monument of a whale made from wood with a seating area underneath. Is fairly worn however

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🏚️ Ruins

The Old Blubber House

King's Lynn · 17 miles

This is the site of the old Blubber House built In 1775. Horses towed the ships up the Nar to this site where the blubber house was. There isnt much left of the place as it was demolished in 1960s

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