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on the B1100 road between

Welney Welney is a village and civil parish in the Fens of England, and the county of Norfolk. The village is about south-west of the town of Downham Market, south of the town of King's Lynn and west of the city of Norwich. The county boundary wit ...

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Christchurch, Cambridgeshire Christchurch is a village in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. The population (including Tipp's End) of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 833. The village is sited close to the Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border. Christchurch ...

. It is also sometimes referred to as "Tips End".Ordnance Survey Map 1974 and Census Returns It is on the border of the

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Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nort ...

, to the east of

March, Cambridgeshire March is a Fenland market town and civil parish in the Isle of Ely area of Cambridgeshire, England. It was the county town of the Isle of Ely which was a separate administrative county from 1889 to 1965. The administrative centre of Fenland ...

Notable residents

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, fundraiser

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