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The Hole, Coates Drove, Isleham

History of the Hole

Arthur Houghton used top meet here as a boy for sacred meetings on Sunday evenings called Camp Meetings. The preacher would talk from a wagon in the Hole and people would sit on the grass slopes and sing hymns. A popular preacher was Billy King, the postman.

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