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A calm river runs alongside a village street in Upwell, lined with stone houses and a distant figure cycling on the road.

Yown Street, Upwell, view from Church Bridge, c.1930 (Coates postcard) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Town Street, Upwell

History of Town Street

Upwell is in Norfolk, right on the border with Cambridgeshire.

Detail from a 1900 Ordnance Survey map showing the street layout, buildings, and a bridge in the village of Upwell.

Upwell OS 1900.

there are two adjacent medieval stone buildings on the west side of Stone Street. They seem to be the remains of two separate properties or one large property consisting of a large hall lying parallel to the road with a rear wing at either end. They may have belonged to the Gilbertine Priory at Marmont, but were most likely attached to another larger but unknown house.

A weathered, pale stone building with a tiled roof sits beside a modern brick house with bay windows under a utility pole.

Upwell, monastic lodging or warehouse (Religious Houses of Cambs, 1988)

A black and white postcard view showing a canal running through Town Street, Upwell, flanked by houses and a telegraph pole.

Town Street Upwell 1923

A street in Upwell featuring brick buildings on the left, one marked Spikings, with a child in the foreground and a path.

Town Street, Upwell

A canal flows through a street in Upwell, lined with traditional houses and shops under thatched and pitched roofs.

Town Street, Upwell, 1900

A canal runs alongside a cobbled road lined with several multi-storey brick buildings in a slight curve at the water's edge.

The Crescent, Town Street, Upwell, 1880s

A man with a horse and cart stands on a grassy bank beside a waterway in a village with a church tower and various houses.

Fen lighter, Town Street, Upwell 1902

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