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St Ives is a market town and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. St Ives lies about 5 miles east of Huntingdon and 12 miles north-west of the city of Cambridge. St Ives is situated within the non-metropolitan district of Huntingdonshire, which covers a similar area to the historic county of the same name.
Previously called Slepe, its name was changed to St Ives after the body, claimed to be that of a Persian bishop, of Saint Ivo (not to be confused with Ivo of Kermartin), was found buried in the town in about 1001/2. Original historical documents relating to St Ives, including the original parish church registers, local government records, maps and photographs, are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office in Huntingdon.
St Ives experienced town planning at a very early date, giving it a spacious Town Centre. Portions of this open space between Merryland and Crown Street were lost to market stalls that turned into permanent buildings. Some of the shops in the town centre are still to the same layout as in Medieval times, one rod in width, the standard length for floor and roof joists. The lanes along the north side of town are believed to follow the layout of the narrow medieval fields, and are slightly S-shaped because of the way ploughs turned at each end. Similar field boundaries can be seen in Warners Park.
As an important market town, St Ives always needed large numbers of public houses: 64 in 1838 (1 for every 55 inhabitants), 60 in 1861, 48 in 1865 and 45 in 1899, although only five of these made the owners a living. As livestock sales diminished, however, so did the need for large numbers of pubs, falling to a low point of 16 in 1962. In that year the Seven Wives on Ramsey Road was opened and, with some openings and closings since, there are 17 today. The pub which has stood on the same site, with the same name, for longest, is the Dolphin, which is over 400 years old. Next oldest is the White Hart, which is pre-1720. Nelson's Head and Golden Lion are at least as old but have not kept the same name and used to be called the Three Tuns and the Red Lion respectively. The existence of a pub on the site of the Robin Hood is also of a similar date, except that it was originally two separate pubs — the Angel and the Swan. The claim of the Royal Oak to date from 1502 cannot be proven since, while a portion at the back is 17th-century (making it physically the oldest portion of any pub in St Ives), the pub name is more recent. The reference is to Charles II's famous escape from Cromwell's Roundheads, and Charles was restored to the throne in 1660.
St Ives Bridge is most unusual in incorporating a chapel, the most striking of only four examples in England. Also unusual are its two southern arches which are a different shape from the rest of the bridge, being rounded instead of slightly gothic. The eastern or town end of Holt Island is nature reserve, and the western end, opposite the parish church, is a facility for the Sea Scouts. The scout portion contains what was, before the opening of the Leisure Centre, the town's outdoor town swimming pool.
The major section of the world's longest guided busway, using all new construction techniques and technology, connects St Ives directly to Cambridge Science Park on the outskirts of Cambridge. St Ives is just off the A14 road on a particularly congested section of the route from the UK's second city, Birmingham, to the port of Felixstowe and thence to the mainland of Europe. The town name is featured in the anonymous nursery rhyme/riddle As I was going to St Ives. While sometimes claimed to be St Ives, Cornwall, the man with seven wives, each with seven sacks containing seven cats etc. may have been on his way to (or coming from) the Great Fair at St Ives.
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The Manor, Hemingford Grey
The Manor Hemingford Grey
#48 Walking The Wandle Trail (Part 1)
In this first Video of an irregular Series, I start walking The Wandle Trail on this first section from Beddington Park to Waddon in South London. The Wandle Trail was established by the Wandle Group in association with the Wandle Industrial Museum in September 1988 and launched with a walk with over 200 participants, led by Colin Saunders. The Wandle Trail Map and Guide was put together in 1996 by the Wandle Industrial Museum with the support and help of London Borough of Merton, and sponsorship from Brown and Root.
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Video Postcard. LONDON EYE - pc26.
London Eye from the Thames Embankment, London. 1.30am June19th. 2007.
The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is an observation wheel that completed construction in 1999 and opened to the public in March, 2000. As of June 2007, it is the largest observation wheel in the world, although there are larger ferris wheels, such as The Star of Nanchang.
The London Eye has become the most popular paid for UK visitor attraction, visited by over 3.5 million people a year.
The London Eye stands 135 metres (443 feet) high on the western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, England, between Westminster and Hungerford Bridges.
Video postcards in this series include:
Barrowby, Denton, Little Ponton, Antons Gowt nr. Boston, Crowland, Wimbledon, Wimbledon Common, London, London Eye, Albert Bridge, Belvoir Castle, Harlaxton, Harlaxton Manor, Hemmingford Abbots, Belton nr. Grantham, Grantham market place, Woolsthorpe by Belvoir, Londonthorpe, Londonthorpe Wood, Honington, Epping Forest, Woodnook Valley, Walcot nr. Folkingham and Sleaford, Stoke Rochford, Stroxton, Harlow, Peakirk, Clipsham.
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Petersburg VA and surrounding areas
There are many tourist attractions in Petersburg, Virginia and its surrounding areas. It's always the case that you can't visit all the places that are interested to you. Such was the case when we went there earlier this month, i.e., early in May, 2019. As you will find from the video that we were able to visit such places as Center Hill Mansion, Pamplin Historical Park, General Grant's Headquarters at City Point, and Blandford Church and Cemetery that are related to the American Civil War. We also visited U.S. Army Women's Museum and U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum that are located in Petersburg area. On our way home, we went to Edgar Allen Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia and stopped briefly near the Main Street Station.
From Fish & Duck Marina to St Ives & Hemingford.
A trip on my widebeam boat from Fish & Duck Marina to St Ives and Hemingford Grey. Ely Cambridgeshire.
a stroll through houghton
me and my wife in houghton cambridgeshire
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I go for a walk to st ives along the river
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Previously called Slepe, its name was changed to St Ives after the body, claimed to be that of a Persian bishop, Saint Ivo (not to be confused with Ivo of Kermartin), was found buried in the town. For the past 1,000 years it has been home to some of the biggest markets in the country, and in the thirteenth century it was an important entrepôt, and remains an important market in East Anglia.
Built on the banks of the wide River Great Ouse between Huntingdon and Ely, St Ives has a famous chapel on its bridge. In the Anglo-Saxon era, St Ives's position on the river Great Ouse was strategic, as it controlled the last natural crossing point or ford on the river, 80 kilometres (50 mi) miles from the sea. The flint reef in the bed of the river at this point gave rise to a ford, which then provided the foundations for the celebrated bridge.
During the 18th century and 19th century, St Ives was a hub of trade and navigation. Goods were brought into the town on barges, and livestock rested on the last fattening grounds before delivery to London's Smithfield Market. As the railway network expanded and roads improved, the use of the River Great Ouse declined. It is now mostly used for leisure boats and recreation.
The river Great Ouse at St Ives flooded in 1947, and some parts suffered seriously again at Easter 1998[1] and in January 2003.[2] Extensive flood protection works were carried out on both sides of the river in 2006/2007 at a cost of nearly £9 million. 500 metres (1,600 ft) of brick-clad steel-piling was put into place to protect the town, most noticeably at the Waits where a pleasing plaza has also been created. A further 750 metres (2,500 ft) on the other side of the river protects Hemingford Grey, reducing the yearly risk of flooding from 10% to 1%.[3] Building on the flood plain is now discouraged at St Ives, as everywhere else.
Original historical documents relating to St Ives, including the original parish church registers, local government records, maps and photographs, are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office, Huntingdon.
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Hemingford Abbots Flower Festival takes place 26/27 June 2010. All welcome; 26 gardens open with many other attractions and events. Bring the family.