Haddenham

The Ken Fox Troupe are at the Great Dorset steam fair today and tomorrow, and at the Haddenham steam rally on 11 and 12 September.

My kids drive me up the wall 2010

You probably wouldn't want one looking over your back garden - the concrete and glass Haddenham comes to mind - but necessity can still be the mother of inventive design.

Water Marks Peter Ashley 2008

As the debates raged during the 1980s, Ian had engaged in only one major excavation, a fairly conventional multiperiod dig at Haddenham, north of Cambridge.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

The highest elevation in the Fenland is near Haddenham, some five miles to the south-west of Ely, where a few bench-marks give 121 and 122 feet above sea-level.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See W. D. Sweeting

It was brought here from Haddenham, where it had been used as a horse-block, by Mr. Bentham.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See W. D. Sweeting

Haddenham churches, both in the west of the county, is noteworthy; especially in the first, which, as it stands, is the eastern part of a priory church of Augustinians (1244).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

It is the lower portion of a stone cross with a square pedestal, found some years ago at Haddenham, in the Isle of Ely, where it was used as a horse-block; the inscription on the pedestal is in Roman capitals, except the E, which is Saxon:

Ely Cathedral Anonymous

I have seen hundreds taken at a time, by nets, springes, or birdlime, 'and so forth till, as he assures William, the Frenchman may sit on Haddenham field blockading Ely for seven years more,' ere they will make one ploughman stop short in his furrow, one hunter cease to set his nets, or one fowler to deceive the birds with springe and snare. '

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

But men told him that between him and those trees lay a black abyss of mud and peat and reeds, Haddenham fen and Smithy fen, with the deep sullen West water or "Ald-reche" of the Ouse winding through them.

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

And so it befell, that when the men marched down to Haddenham that afternoon, Torfrida rode at their head on a white charger, robed from throat to ankle in sackcloth, her fetters clanking on her limbs.

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847