Little Wilbraham

Civil Parish in Cambridgeshire South Cambridgeshire

England

Little Wilbraham

Little Wilbraham is a civil parish located in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is situated approximately 9 miles east of the city of Cambridge. The small village is set in a rural area, surrounded by picturesque countryside, and has a population of around 300 residents.

The parish is known for its historic charm, with several listed buildings and a rich history dating back to the Domesday Book of 1086. The centerpiece of the village is the Grade I listed St. John the Evangelist Church, which dates back to the 13th century and features stunning medieval architecture.

Little Wilbraham is predominantly an agricultural community, with farming being the main occupation for many of its residents. The fertile land surrounding the village is used for arable farming, and the area is known for its production of crops such as wheat, barley, and oilseed rape.

Despite its small size, the village offers a range of amenities for its residents. These include a village hall, a primary school, and a pub, providing a sense of community and a gathering place for locals.

The village is also well-connected to nearby towns and cities. The A1303 road runs through Little Wilbraham, providing easy access to Cambridge and Newmarket. Additionally, the village is served by a regular bus service, enabling residents to travel to nearby destinations.

Overall, Little Wilbraham is a quaint and idyllic village, offering a peaceful and rural lifestyle while still being within close proximity to larger urban areas.

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Little Wilbraham Images

Images are sourced within 2km of 52.206095/0.261318 or Grid Reference TL5458. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Through wheat to Fulbourn

This path - always well defined - runs from Hawk Mill Farm at Little Wilbraham to Fulbourn (ahead). These fields are near the southern end of the Cambridgeshire Fens and are not so pancake-flat as those further north. Comparable views: TL5357 : Path through beans and TL5357 : Footpath to Fulbourn.

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From Hawk Mill Farm to Fulbourn

The farm track is shared by the public footpath to Fulbourn, which diverges to the left 150 yards or so ahead. The S&B Herba plant on Station Road in Fulbourn shows on the skyline just to the left of centre.

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Little Wilbraham: a barley field at Hawk Mill Farm

The farm road is shared by a public footpath, which passes through the farmyard. Thereafter, turn left for Fulbourn or right to Quy, both pleasant routes.

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Little Wilbraham High Street

A sunny early-August morning which was about to cloud over. For a better idea of the Grade II listed 16th-century house on the left, see TL5458 : Little Wilbraham: White Hall. I was taken by the bright green corrugated-iron roof of the outbuildings next door and the post box's vivid splash of red opposite.

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Ripe wheat, big sky, pylons

Looking north from the byway from Great Wilbraham to Bottisham or Six Mile Bottom on a bright morning in early August. TL5658 : Power line and snowy fields is a wintry view of the pylons, taken from nearer the road.

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Path to Great Wilbraham

This track runs from Heath Road (which links Bottisham and Six Mile Bottom) to Great Wilbraham (ahead).

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Path and pylons

This track runs from Great Wilbraham to Heath Road (which links Bottisham and Six Mile Bottom). The picture was taken on a bright morning in early August.

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Great Wilbraham: a pink front door

Clare House, at the corner of High Street, Angle End (left) and Butt Lane (right), has been repainted since I last pointed a camera in this direction, in January 2015: TL5557 : A January morning in Great Wilbraham.

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Great Wilbraham: recycling bins day

Blue (recyclable card, paper, metal, glass and plastic) and green (compostable garden and kitchen waste) bins are waiting to be collected. The timber-framed houses are some of a good number of Grade II listed historic houses in the village.

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Great Wilbraham: scaffolding at Rookery Farm

The Grade II listed farmhouse is 17th-century in origin, with a front remodelled in the nineteenth. The farm's 17th-century barn (now housing and out of the picture to the left) is also Grade II listed - see TL5457 : Great Wilbraham: a barn conversion. This is the road to Fulbourn and Cambridge.

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On Little Wilbraham Road in November

The long narrow plantation marks the line of part of the main runway of Bottisham Airfield (1940-6), which at first had a grass runway. According to the American Air Museum in Britain website “The P-47 Thunderbolts of the 361st Fighter Group damaged the surfaces of the airfield so much in the first months of flying from Bottisham that American engineers were called in to lay a new runway. In January 1944 they constructed a 1,470-yard-long runway with pierced-steel planking in just three days”. These images may be of interest: TL5458 : Little Wilbraham: a farm track with a history, TL5460 : Restored buildings at Bottisham Airfield Museum and TL5460 : The Stars and Stripes at Bottisham Airfield Museum.

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Little Wilbraham: on Primrose Farm Road

Leaving the village on a sunny November morning.

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Little Wilbraham: restoration of the parish church

One of the large south windows in the nave - the one next to the porch - is being renewed. Robin Webster's TL5458 : Little Wilbraham church shows the south side clearly.

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Great Wilbraham: St Nicholas's Church and graveyard

Photographed from Angle End shortly after ten o'clock on an unexpectedly sunny November morning.

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Great Wilbraham: St Nicholas through the trees

A view from the Recreation Ground, taken on a cloudless November morning. The church is Grade II* listed and pleasingly placed at the north end of the village.

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Great Wilbraham: across the Recreation Ground

Looking towards Angle End on a brilliantly sunny November morning. The roped-off cricket square edges into the right-hand side of the picture.

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Great Wilbraham: High Street and Church Close

Like most villages in the Cambridgeshire Fens, Great Wilbraham has a mixture of old timber-framed houses and more modern ones.

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Gulls in a fenland field

After being disturbed, these gulls had briefly circled (TL5357 : Gulls circling on a November morning) before settling again on this autumn-sown field north of the Fulbourn to Great Wilbraham road. The fields round these two villages are the southernmost in the Cambridgeshire Fens.

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Little Wilbraham is located at Grid Ref: TL5458 (Lat: 52.206095, Lng: 0.261318)

Administrative County: Cambridgeshire

District: South Cambridgeshire

Police Authority: Cambridgeshire