21-611: Wansford may refer to the following places in England: Wansford, Cambridgeshire Wansford railway station , headquarters of the Nene Valley Railway Wansford, East Riding of Yorkshire [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
42-419: A dual carriage way. This would involve cutting through part of the former Stamford to Wansford Branch Line and the relocating of Wansford Road station. Nene Valley Railway agreed to take the building and reuse it at their Peterborough terminus. This is still in the process of occurring. Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire King's Cliffe (variously spelt Kings Cliffe, King's Cliff, Kings Cliff, Kingscliffe)
63-426: A new building was developed on King's Forest. This new school is very large in size and is very advanced. The Church of England parish church of All Saints has a central tower that is Norman , with late 13th century upper parts and broach spire . The nave has a Decorated Gothic west window and there are north and south aisles with 14th century arcades . The font is also 14th century. Later features are
84-483: A parish population of 1,137 people, increasing to 1,202 at the 2011 Census. This later increased to 1,585 at the 2021 Census. The 1871 Census recorded a parish population of 1,259. The 1891 Census recorded the parish population as having fallen to 1,082, occupying 262 "inhabited houses" King's Cliffe is very small but is growing in size. There is a school named King's Cliffe Endowed Primary. It used to be located next to John Wooding's Groceries but in recent years,
105-545: A private residence. The Great North Road crossed the River Nene on Wansford Old Bridge, which is a Grade I listed building. The stone bridge replaced a wooden bridge with eight arches damaged by floods in 1571. The Great North Road was diverted to the east and the 1920s concrete bridge is itself Grade II*; it now carries the northbound carriageway of the A1. Wansford is under two parish councils. Wansford Parish Council, within
126-534: A set of charities founded by Rev. Dr William Law (1686–1761) and his disciple, Mrs Elizabeth Hutcheson. A house dating from about 1700 was made a Schoolmaster's House in 1745, and next to it the Boys' School was built in 1748. From 1752 the Schoolmaster's House became Law's Library, which housed Law's religious books and lent them to people of King's Cliffe and neighbouring towns. King's Cliffe railway station
147-569: Is a village and civil parish on Willow Brook , a tributary of the River Nene , about 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Corby in North Northamptonshire . The parish adjoins the county boundary with the City of Peterborough and the village is about 12 miles (19 km) west of the city centre. The village is not far from the boundary with Lincolnshire and about 6 miles (10 km) south of Stamford . The 2001 Census recorded
168-456: The City of Peterborough and Huntingdonshire districts in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire , England. It had a population of 506 at the 2021 Census. It is situated 7 miles (11 km) west of Peterborough and 8 miles (13 km) miles south of Stamford . It is close to the county boundary with both Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire . The village is also located close to the A1 road and
189-526: The Nene Valley Railway , a heritage railway group and trust. They bought the railway line between Yarwell and Peterborough via Wansford and they built a new station building at Wansford and now use the station for their main operations and headquarters. In 2022, it was announced that National Highways planned to convert the single carriageway of the A47 between Leicester and Peterborough into
210-552: The Perpendicular Gothic clerestory , roof and remodelling of the north and south arches supporting the tower. Inside the church is a monument erected in 1623 to the Thorpe family, whose descendant John Thorpe (1565–1655) was a notable Elizabethan and Jacobean architect. Hall Yard Farmhouse was built in 1603. Inside the house, Dr Law's Music Room has an 18th-century Georgian coved ceiling with decoration in
231-725: The Soke of Peterborough in Northamptonshire (the north side of the River Nene) and Huntingdonshire (the south bank) is still there halfway across the bridge. On 2 May 2007 the helicopter of Phillip Carter , entrepreneur and owner of the Haycock Hotel, was found as it had crashed nearby in woods at Kings Cliffe . According to local folklore, related in Defoe's A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain (1724),
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#1732780218006252-622: The area of Peterborough City Council , comprises the village north of, and including, the Old Bridge. The village to the south of Wansford Old Bridge (The Haycock side) is represented by Sibson-cum-Stibbington Parish Council and comes under Huntingdonshire District Council. Wansford station is in Stibbington parish. The village was split between two counties until 1965 when it came under one authority, ( Huntingdon and Peterborough and, from 1974, Cambridgeshire ). The boundary post between
273-419: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wansford&oldid=933243457 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wansford, Cambridgeshire Wansford is a village straddling
294-805: The name Wansford-in-England comes from the tale of a local man who fell asleep on a hayrick and upon awakening found himself floating down the River Nene towards the sea. He asked a traveller on the riverbank where he was, and upon hearing the reply "Wansford", asked, "Wansford in England?". The name stuck and the Haycock Hotel takes its name from the legend. This version of the story seems to be derived by oral transmission from "Barnabæ Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal" , an account of four long and often drunken journeys north through England published by Richard Brathwait in 1638 and reprinted in 1820, with extensive notes, by Joseph Haslewood . The hero, Barnaby,
315-434: The second verse shows, he arrived when Wansford had been hit by the plague and the doors were marked with warnings. Wansford has no real regular bus services aside from ring-and-ride buses and school bus services. The nearest village with regular bus services to Peterborough , Stamford and Bourne is Barnack and further afield is Peterborough. The village was served by two railway stations, Wansford railway station
336-491: The style of Robert Adam . Law's Chapel, also 18th century, is nearby. Parts of King's Cliffe Manor House are early 17th century. In the summer of 1845, the Reverend Miles Joseph Berkeley, the rector of All Saints' church, proposed, after observing potatoes from near the village struck by potato blight , that the causative agent of the blight was a fungus. This was contradictory to theories at
357-558: The time, which suggested that the fungus was merely a symptom of decay, and not the causative agent of the blight. Berkeley labelled the fungus he found Botrytis infestans, now known as Phytophthora infestans . King's Cliffe is unusual in having three sets of almshouses . The John Thorpe Almshouses were built in 1668, the Widows' Almshouses in 1749 and the Spinsters' Almshouses in 1754. The Widows' and Spinsters' almshouses were part of
378-620: Was allegedly born in Appleby-in-Westmorland , and his surname may have been Harrington (there was much discussion of the truth of these facts in prefaces to later editions - and indeed as to whether Barnaby had ever existed). The poem is written in elegant Latin verse with a parallel translation into English doggerel (only the English is given here). The references to Wansford are in the third journey, after Barnaby has visited Stilton and before he heads north to Stamford . As
399-491: Was also a distance from the main village centre and closed along with the branch line to Stamford East in 1929. Wansford station closed in 1957 to passengers and the stretch of the line from Northampton to Oundle in 1964. The line between Oundle and Peterborough via Wansford remained open for freight traffic and a boarding school in Oundle until 1972, when it too was closed. The station and line reopened around five years later under
420-527: Was on the route of the original Great North Road before the modern A1 was built. The village has since been bypassed by the A1 but the former Great North Road still exists through the village. The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed building and is the main Church of England parish church of Wansford. There is also a former chapel in the village centre, but this has since been converted into
441-496: Was under miles southwest of the village on the former Northampton and Peterborough Railway which connected the village with Northampton , Wellingborough , Irthlingborough , Raunds , Thrapston , Oundle and Peterborough. The station was opened in 1845 and the station was also a junction for a branch line to Stamford East railway station via Barnack. An additional station to serve the main village centre, called Wansford Road railway station , opened in 1867. This station though
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