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A group of people, including two women and a child, stand and kneel in front of a timber-clad house with a tiled roof.

Prickwillow c.1900 (CambCollection YPriko22935))

Prickwillow Data

Prickwillow Data

A cart carrying a large floral cross and people stands on a road, flanked by men in suits and a figure in a clerical cape.

Fen funeral at Prickwillow c1913 with Rev Claude Kingdon, vicar 1888-1917.

Prickwillow people were often buried in Ely because of the rapid soil erosion in their village.


Seven men in light shirts and hats stand in a muddy drainage channel before a wooden barrier, holding shovels and tools.

Fen drainage clearance Prickwillow c1890


“Prickwillow in the Fens” by Claude D Kingdom (2001) is a reprint of an article from “Home Mission Field”, May 1893


https://archive.org/details/PrickwillowScrapbook18971990ByMikePetty/mode/2up

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