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18-611: Downham may refer to: Places [ edit ] in England Downham, Cambridgeshire , a civil parish Little Downham Downham, Essex Downham, Lancashire Downham, London , a district of south east London Downham Estate , housing estate in Downham, London Downham, a common name of Downham Market , Norfolk Downham West , Norfolk Downham, South Norfolk Downham, Northumberland People with

36-427: A church, a village shop and post office , a fish and chip shop , a car dealership, and Grade II-listed Village Hall. The village also has a preschool and primary school as well as a sports area purchased by the council in the early 1960s which includes a pavilion and cricket ground , three football pitches , tennis courts , a basketball court , BMX dirt track , youth shelter and playground . Each year

54-673: A directory similar to the online Yellow Pages . Kellysearch.com was established in Boston in 2004. It was in many different languages and introduced a fully searchable online-catalogue library and product press release section. The old editions of the Kelly’s Directories are seen as highly collectable and have also become a useful reference tool for people tracing the history of local areas. The contents are available to buy on CD-ROM from many entrepreneurial sources for this purpose. An extensive but incomplete collection of Kelly's Directories

72-539: A village fete is staged in June and in the same month a Medieval Fair is held just outside the village. In September the local primary school organises a Scarecrow Fair that sees the village lined with Scarecrows for the week building up to the fair. The annual Ely New Year's Eve 10k Race , organised by Ely Runners, both begins and ends in Little Downham. The 2011 race featured 700 runners and involved one circuit of

90-464: Is an arcaded double piscina with cinquefoil-headed arch, but portions of the arch and one basin have been cut away to admit the insertion of a window : the rood screen is of carved oak : the chancel was restored and a vestry and organ chamber erected in 1890, at a cost of £1,144 : in 1897 and 1899 extensive restorations were carried out at a cost of £800 : the church had been previously reseated, and now affords 300 sittings :

108-418: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Downham, Cambridgeshire Situated in the east of Cambridgeshire , the village of Little Downham is located 3 miles (5 km) north of the city of Ely . The Parish of Downham comprises Little Downham and Pymoor . It has an approximate population of 2660 with approximately 35 miles for footpaths around

126-453: Is shown at the north-west edge of the Isle of Ely , hence its historic name of 'Downham-in-the-Isle'. The village's church, dedicated to St Leonard , dates back to the 12th century, though it has been considerably modified since and restored multiple times. Kelly's Directory , a British business and trade directory , recorded in 1929 that "The church of St. Leonard is a structure of rubble in

144-607: The Bishops of Ely . Little Downham Local Nature Reserve is situated adjacent to the Bishop's Walk. It consists of three sections of land, measuring a total of 17 acres (6.6 hectares), and is the first designated Local Nature Reserve in East Cambridgeshire . The village retains Victorian Grade II-listed pub and Thai restaurant (The Plough Inn), a recently-refurbished hotel, bar, and restaurant (The Anchor Inn),

162-591: The Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes (1875) and Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers (1877). In 1897, Kelly & Co Ltd became Kelly’s Directories Ltd. This name stuck for another 106 years before being renamed Kellysearch in 2003 to reflect its focus away from hard copy directories and towards an Internet-based product search engine. The front cover of a Kelly's Directory sometimes stated "Kelly's Directories Ltd., established 1799", however this

180-470: The Transition Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel , clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles , containing 4 bells, two of which are dated 1659 : the clerestory windows are very small and are deeply splayed internally : the inner porch doorway is a good example of Transition Norman : in the chancel

198-449: The fen around Little Downham. [REDACTED] Media related to Little Downham at Wikimedia Commons [REDACTED] Media related to Little Downham at Wikimedia Commons This Cambridgeshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kelly%27s Directory The eponymous originator of the directory was Frederic Festus Kelly . In 1835 or 1836 he became chief inspector of letter-carriers for

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216-665: The inland or general post office, and took over publication of the Post Office London Directory, whose copyright was in private hands despite its semi-official association with the post office, and which Kelly had to purchase from the widow of his predecessor. He founded Kelly & Co. and he and various family members gradually expanded the company over the next several decades, producing directories for an increasing number of UK counties and buying out, or putting out of business, various competing publishers of directories. Other publications followed, including

234-425: The north aisle was restored in 1912. The register dates from the year 1558, but is not continuous." Little Downham's Village Hall is a Grade II-listed building and was constructed in 1779 "on the site of the former guildhall as both a boys' school and the village workhouse . In 1886 the workhouse was altered to become a girls' school and the building remained in use as a school until 1960. The infants school

252-654: The parish. The population was measured at the 2011 Census as 2,589. It was one of only two sites in Cambridgeshire to be covered by the Survey of English Dialects . In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village is called Duneham . At the time the Fens were mostly flooded, and the village is on a small rise of solid ground (visible today), so there may have been 'dunes' there. In a map from 1648 (above), 'Downham'

270-451: The surname [ edit ] George Downham (1560-1634), bishop of Derry Jenny Downham , British novelist John Downham (1571-1652), English clergyman William Downham (1511–1577), bishop of Chester Other uses [ edit ] Downham (1795 cricketer) , an English cricketer HMS Downham , a minesweeper Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

288-412: The title Downham . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downham&oldid=1172801897 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

306-513: Was based on the date of issue of the first Post Office London Directory by an earlier inspector of letter carriers several decades before Kelly's involvement with that publication. Kelly & Co Printers purchased the Middle Mill site on Kingston's Hogsmill River in 1879, becoming a major employer in the town. They closed production there in 1932 and moved to Andover. For a short time, Kelly's existed online as Kellysearch (broken link) ,

324-407: Was on a separate site in what is now the allotments and the site is marked with a plaque. A new school was built nearby on land donated by the feoffees and this building has since been replaced on the same site. The current village hall was opened in 1974 and has undergone major refurbishment in that time." The village contains the grade II listed remains of the old Bishop's Palace formerly used by

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