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A sepia street scene shows a fairground ride with a peaked roof, horse-drawn carts, and figures walking along a grassy verge.

Reach fair, 1930 (photo W M Palmer) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Reach Fairground

History of the Fair

The fair at Reach had been established by 1201.

A row of houses lines a street next to a grass verge, with two people sitting on a ridge in the foreground, overlooking land.

Devil’s Dyke north end at Reach (photo D G Reid) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

There was a serious fire on Devil’s Dyke in 1899 reported in the CDN.

A wide landscape view of Reach showing scattered houses on the left, grassy open ground, and trees under a pale, blank sky.

Reach Fairground (MoC82/76)

A wide, grassy common leads towards a row of village houses, with a single horse grazing in the centre of the field.

Reach fairground (MoC249/54)

A horse-drawn carriage carries men in dark coats through a dense crowd of people wearing various types of historical hats.

Mayor of Cambridge arriving to open Reach Fair. He would throw coins into the crowd. Date unknown (Cambs Collection)

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