Cock Fen

Field by Wisbech Road, Lakes End

Garden by Main Road, Lakes End

House by Wisbech Road, Lakes End

To Ely 13

Old milepost near to Lakes End, Norfolk for overall view see Link

Keith Evans

Old Milepost

Old milepost near to Lakes End, Norfolk for close up view see Link

Keith Evans

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Lakes End

This is such a beautiful building that it deserves separate photos to show some of the detail. See also TL5196 : Lakes End Methodist Chapel. This chapel is similar architecturally to several other nearby former Primitive Methodist Chapels (see TL5293 : Former Primitive Methodist Chapel at Black Horse Drove and TL6096 : Former Primitive Methodist Chapel at Ten Mile Bank). However, this one is still in use as a church. The original chapel at Lakes End was Wesleyan, founded ante 1800. The current chapel is Primitive Methodist, built with an adjacent schoolroom in 1914. I always think when I see this date on a building that they must not have suspected what lay just ahead, i.e. the start of the First World War.

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Lakes End: detail

This is such a beautiful building that it deserves separate photos to show some of the detail. One of the features of these chapels is the inlaid stones bearing inscriptions to people connected to the chapel, in this case G.Russell, Superintendant of the Sunday School. See also TL5196 : Lakes End Methodist Chapel. This chapel is similar architecturally to several other nearby former Primitive Methodist Chapels (see TL5293 : Former Primitive Methodist Chapel at Black Horse Drove and TL6096 : Former Primitive Methodist Chapel at Ten Mile Bank). However, this one is still in use as a church.

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Lakes End: detail

See TL5196 : Lakes End Methodist Chapel. This is such a beautiful building that it deserves separate photos to show some of the detail. One of the features of these chapels is the inlaid stones bearing inscriptions to people connected to the chapel. Very similar architecturally to several other nearby former Primitive Methodist Chapels (see TL5293 : Former Primitive Methodist Chapel at Black Horse Drove and TL6096 : Former Primitive Methodist Chapel at Ten Mile Bank). However, this one is still in use as a church.

Formerly a view of Grange Farm, Lakes End

Stacks of wooden crates are taking over from conifers as the wind-breaks of the fens - and they grow even faster!

Flint House Road and drain

To the east of Lot's Bridge near Three Holes

Totally churned up road in The Fens

Numerous small lanes and roads in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire are being wrecked by farm machinery and articulated lorries which appear to get bigger and heavier every year. They are now basically too large for the road infrastructure which was never designed to carry such tonnages. Conditions are particularly bad during the potato and sugar beet harvest at this time of year. This is the crossroads where Flint House Road and Cock Fen Road meet Horsehead Drove between Three Holes and Welney

Horse Head Drain near Lakes End

Looking south west from Cock Fen Road

Row of trees on Cock Fen Road

North east of Lakes End near Welney

Entrance track to Cock Fen Farm, Lakes End

Part of Fred Hartley Estates Ltd

Potato muck near Cock Fen Farm, Lakes End

Probably has been dumped in the corner of this field to fill a hollow. A flock of forraging swans in the distance which over-winter on nearby Welney Washes